[packagekit] Feeding messages to user while installing packages

[Anders F Björklund]

Richard Hughes wrote:

> PackageKit is *not* designed for all users. PackageKit is designed for
> these people: http://www.packagekit.org/pk-profiles.html
> 
> This may not be you. They may not be the focus for the distribution
> you use, but they are the focus for the PackageKit project. No one
> tool or framework can be suitable for all of the inexperienced, expert
> and programmer use cases.

And of course PackageKit doesn't do everything on Fedora
either, thus the need for other projects like Yum Extender ?

Or Synaptic on Ubuntu. Or Smart, or any of the other graphic
interfaces to the command line interfaces of the backends...

--anders