[packagekit] Removing UpdateSystem()

[Duncan Mac-Vicar P.]

On 07/02/2012 04:19 PM, Richard Hughes wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I was talking to Daniel last week and we started talking about
> removing UpdateSystem() from the API. The basic questions are:
>
> * do we ever want to treat GetUpdates()->UpdatePackages() any
> differently to UpdateSystem()
> * do we ever now want to do GetUpdates before updating the system?
> i.e. "I just don't care, JFDI"
>
> If you've got a valid use case of UpdateSystem -- then please explain.
> Otherwise I'll probably remove it from the API this week. Thanks.

Not sure, but in ZYpp UpdateSystem() maps to "zypper up" which is 
"upgrade all packages without uninstalling anything", which is a softer 
version of "zypper dup" (distribution upgrade).

Now, with UdpatePackages, one can select which packages get updated, and 
this is more fragile than zypper up.

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