Re: [Tracker] [Use case] Distribution Packages Management

[Debarshi Ray <debarshi ray gmail com>]

> I'm going to talk with sabayon's entropy package manager in mind, but
> it may also apply elsewhere like on debian, or at a higher level, to
> packagekit.

Thing is that as of now PackageKit uses the underlying distribution's
package manager to do all the operations. eg., the YUM backend uses
the same Python classes that are used by the command line program yum.
So if PackageKit is going to use Tracker, it means the YUM classes
also need to query Tracker. People will object to this because YUM and
its couterparts are very fundamental to a distribution and adding the
overhead of a dependency on Tracker is undesirable. (Consider that YUM
is used on the Koji buildsystem, all sorts of servers, the Anaconda
installer, etc.)

Cheers,
Debarshi
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