[packagekit] Feeding messages to user while installing packages

[Fabio Erculiani]

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Anders F Björklund <afb at algonet.se> wrote:
> Fabio Erculiani wrote:
>
>>> And for rpm, no input/output should be the default package manager behaviour.
>>
>> That's probably the reason why PackageKit doesn't support it.
>> Looks like the motto is "As long as it works for Fedora, it's all good
>> and other scenarios are not considered". If a project is advertised as
>> distro-independent, it should at least give distributors some
>> flexibility to implement features as their users expect :-(
>
> To be honest I'm not sure why PackageKit even supports building
> from source. Or when it does, why not do it for all backends...
> (It would be nice to have both "View Source" and "Build Source"
> buttons in any interface for an Open Source software manager)
>

Entropy is a binary package manager.
Portage can be used with binpkgs too.
Forget the "compiling from sources" here, that's not the point ;-)

> [...]
> --anders
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Fabio Erculiani