[packagekit] Triggering EULA dialog?

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Sun Feb 8 01:49:53 PST 2009


On Sat, 2009-02-07 at 07:23 -0800, Dan Kegel wrote:
> 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.

Agreed. Even if you ship the EULA in the package as a post-inst action
you can just cpio-out the binary rpm or unpack the deb file and ignore
all the scripts completely.

Richard.





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