[packagekit] Software Sources / Channels and PackageKit

[Alex Eftimie]

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:22 PM, Matthias Klumpp <matthias at nlinux.org> wrote:
> I think you should talk to Daniel Nicoletti (dantti) about this, cause he
> is AFAIK trying to implement this in Apper (KDE PackageKit frontend).
> The software channel is part of the package-id, so filtering applications
> by channel should be possible, but I think there are some problems left...
> (I'm not really an expert on this, Richard and Daniel know more)
> In my opinion this is a very nice feature if users use 3rd-party software
> sources.

Thank you for the quick answer! I had PPA's in mind (and the recent
article[1] about security issues in adding software sources without
having a trust system) when I wrote this.

Alex

[1] http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/05/the-evolution-of-the-personal-package-archive-system/