[packagekit] Feeding messages to user while installing packages

Anders F Björklund afb at algonet.se
Fri Feb 4 03:46:26 PST 2011


Fabio Erculiani wrote:

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

OK, I'll go with my previous point then.

"Default options and output logging ought to be enough for everyone."


Apparently it has http://wiki.sabayonlinux.org/index.php?title=Sulfur

And Portage should have lots too... Like http://necoro.eu/portato/ ?

--anders




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