Re: PackageKit integration

[Pascal de Bruijn <pmjdebruijn pcode nl>]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Pascal de Bruijn <pmjdebruijn pcode nl> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com> wrote:
>> gnome-color-manager in git master now integrates with PackageKit in
>> the following ways:
>>
>> * Offers to install argyllcms if the user tries to calibrate without
>> argyllcms installed
>> * Offers to install shared-color-targets if they are not installed,
>> and the user tries to calibrate a non-display device
>>
>> This means gnome-color-manager can be shipped on live-cd's without
>> bringing in the 5.0Mb argyllcms, and the 1.4Mb (and rising)
>> shared-color-targets, just in case the user wants to calibrate a
>> device.
>>
>> If people want to turn off the PackageKit bits, then I can add a GConf
>> key or #ifdef as required.
>
> Since not all distro's don't use PackageKit that would be very welcome.
>
> A ./configure option would probably be best? Since this is a distro
> specific setting, it needs to be set in the packaging process.
>
> And GConf is very user specific, so it would seem odd to use GConf for
> this particular purpose.

Hmm doesn't totem do similar things with codecs and the gstreamer packages?

GCM should probably follow a similar approach...

Regards,
Pascal de Bruijn