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

[Debarshi Ray <debarshi ray gmail com>]

> Now think on the great part of this things.
> If we define a standard ontology to use for this use case, packagekit
> can become a simple tool

PackageKit is actually quite simple. It is nothing but a daemon which
provides a standard D-Bus interface which front-ends like pkg-con,
gnome-packagekit, KPackageKit, and even some applications and
libraries (GStreamer, Anjuta, etc.) use. The daemon hands over all the
work to the distribution's package/repository manager (eg., RPM/YUM,
RPM/Zypp, dpkg/APT, etc..)

> And any distro should only write a simple miner,
> and it became packagekit friendly.

With PackageKit's current design, writing a backend is just a matter
of implementing the various operations supported by the D-Bus
abstraction in terms of the distribution's packaging system and the
distribution already has a package/repository manager.

Cheers,
Debarshi
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