[packagekit] PackageKit support for Fedora modularity?

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Thu Aug 3 10:35:37 UTC 2017


On 3 August 2017 at 11:30, Stef Walter <stefw at redhat.com> wrote:
> dnf (and soon yum) is the local thing that understands the modularity
> logic.

We're patching yum to understand this?!

> So I guess this means talking directly with dnf and yum.

Sure, going out-of-band to the underlying libdnf or just reading the
metadata might be exactly the thing to do. I don't think I'm
comfortable to suggest API additions to PackageKit at this stage --
especially when I'm being pulled in 180 degrees in the other direction
with the atomic + flatpak crowd.

Richard.


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