[packagekit] PackageKit DBus Interface in Ubuntu - It is the API that matters!

Bastien Nocera hadess at hadess.net
Thu Nov 17 05:43:31 PST 2011


On Thu, 2011-11-17 at 12:41 +0100, Sebastian Heinlein wrote:
> A valid question is: Why not replace AptDaemon by PackageKit at all?
> The
> answer is that we need a highly integrated backend for
> software-center:
> chaining of transactions, storing meta-data in transactions, handling
> of
> purchases, downloading while installing (coming feature), inheritance
> of
> PolicyKit priviliges, configuration file conflict support, fast adding
> of new API (e.g. AddLicenseKey) ... 

And those features would be appreciated in PackageKit too.




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