[packagekit] PackageKit on different operating systems

[Anders F Björklund]

Richard Hughes wrote:

>> I don't think there are any backends for Mac OS X or for Windows ?
>> But you could run the Smart backend, if you had a package manager.
>
> No. I'm sure it would be possible to create repodata for windows, but
> the question would be what content you would add. Maybe cygwin would
> work, but it would have to be a pretty specialist setup to use
> something like native .exe files.

Not so sure about "specialist", more like "lame screen scraping" :-)

But there was a Google Summer of Code '09 project, to do just that...

http://www.winlibre.com/wiki/doku.php? 
id=winlibre_soc_2009:proposals_for_the_google_summer_of_code_program_200 
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You would probably have to create some custom non-exe content, though.

--anders