[packagekit] Triggering EULA dialog?

[Rahul Sundaram]

Dan Kegel wrote:

> Presumably the Debian configuration questions are also supported,
> so that's one more place an EULA could be shown
> (albeit post-download), right?

debconf isn't supported in PackageKit and there are no plans to. 
PackageKit generally supports only a common subset of what the native 
backends do.

Also refer
http://www.packagekit.org/pk-faq.html#user-interaction

Ubuntu IIRC has a custom solution for handling debconf stuff.

> Since people can copy the .rpm and install it out of the context
> of the metadata, one can't rely on the Suse-style pre-download
> metadata being shown, so any app that wants to show a EULA
> probably needs to show it on first run.  

Correct. On a multi-user system which Linux almost always is, this is 
really the only way to inform each other instead of just the 
administrator who happens to install the package.

  Anyone who does this
> should of course pay attention to the controversy over the
> Firefox EULA, see
> http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2008/09/ubuntu-firefox-eula-dustup-reignites-oss-licensing-debate.ars

.. and also the solution firefox took which is to show it on first run 
as well essentially but very unobtrusively.

Rahul