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[Anders F Björklund]

Richard Hughes wrote:

>> It'd be nice if the GUI could be a little more friendly.
> 
> Yup, that's what we're aiming to do with AppStream:
> http://distributions.freedesktop.org/wiki/AppStream
[...]
>> Also, I always thought it'd be nice if web sites could host a simple file,

> Yup, that already exists. Checkout what catalog files are. See
> http://www.packagekit.org/pk-faq.html#1-click-install for details.

Is there anybody working on / using these PK concepts, still ?

It seems to be in the planning stage, unlike USC / apturl...

>> One last point, is there anything that could be done to encourage
>> (admittedly closed source) game developers to Linux through PackageKit? Much
>> like Steam and the respective App Stores have done for Apple and Android.
> 
> I think the problem is creating a universal binary often means
> staticly linking in half the distro. This upsets the security people
> considerably.

Why would you need static linking ? Couldn't you use shared libs ?

Software licensing shouldn't directly affect the packaging, I think.

--anders