Re: epiphany-list Digest, Vol 51, Issue 5

["Tony Yarusso" <tonyyarusso gmail com>]

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 8:23 AM, Michael Stephenson
<mickstephenson googlemail com> wrote:
>> Hmm, mixed feelings on this.  On the one hand, easily accessible
>> extensions are a big part of what has made Firefox so successful, but
>> on the other Epiphany is built on the idea of sane integration, and
>> this sort of thing requires bypassing the package management system.
>> I would prefer seeing some sort of basic functionality built in plus
>> handlers for the major PM types, such as the relatively new apt-url in
>> Debian/Ubuntu that would accomplish both things.  (No idea what
>> equivalents are available for RPM and others at this time.)
>
> I'm no dev so forgive me if I am total wrong here, but isn't this exactly
> kind of thing what packagekit and policykit were designed for?
> Is there a way this could be implemented for the distributions which support
> packagekit and optional in the USE flags?
> Mick

No dev here either, but some quick reading makes it sound like you may
be on to something.  Hopefully someone on the list has actually worked
with those tools a bit.

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Tony Yarusso
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