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

[Philip Van Hoof <spam pvanhoof be>]

On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 11:18 +0200, Debarshi Ray wrote:
> > We won't add tracker dependencies to other packages manager, we won't
> > also for ours entropy....
>
> Ok, but the PackageKit damon (ie. packagekitd) runs as root. So it is
> not a good idea to bloat the daemon by asking it to talk to Tracker,
> either, if that is what you had in mind.

The application that runs PackageKit's dialogs doesn't run as root, it's
that code that should do the queries directly to tracker-store, not by
first going to packagekitd.

A difficulty that I see is that the user must have read access to each
package system's database, for his miner to successfully read it and
pump it into RDF. But for example apt-cache can read from the db as
user, so apt and dpkg are good, I guess. I think YUM & RPM also allows
this.

I remember that among the questions at FOSDEM was that app developers
want a query interface to packagekit, to make queries against the
metadata of the packages.

That could indeed be implemented with tracker-store as RDF store and
SPARQL service.

But again, do it clientside in packagekit's libraries. No need to go
through root-process packagekitd for this.

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