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

[Michele Tameni <michele amdplanet it>]

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 1:12 AM, Debarshi Ray <debarshi ray gmail com> wrote:
> > 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.)

We won't add tracker dependencies to other packages manager, we won't
also for ours entropy.... but i think that all the cool stuff are
still valid, and "enabled" packages manager, and other apps can
benefit from this imho.


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