[packagekit] Packagekit and Ubuntu

James Westby jw+debian at jameswestby.net
Wed Sep 16 10:09:34 PDT 2009


On Wed Sep 16 17:33:49 +0100 2009 Richard Hughes wrote:
> You've got to ask yourself, how many end users are going to be
> installing MySQL using PackageKit GUI tools?

PackageKit is not just a GUI, it's also an API. You are also limiting the
tools that can be built on top of this API. That you have an API specialised
for those particular use cases may hinder adoption of it.

Thanks,

James



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