Soldato
I'm actually quite impressed.
Some of you may know it better as "the add/remove thing in ubuntu".
Presentation was by Richard Hughes, the project's creator. It's basically a repo. handler/depsolver which can sit atop deb or rpm.
It has a core component which runs as a demon, accepting requests from multiple users, and applications, and queueing them cleverly. Advantage is it's multi user (better for fast user switching), and the GUI & CLI don't need to be root, there's still security via PolicyKit. It can also handle updates.
If you adopt it totally you never need to see a locked package manager message again. And while you can still use apt-get/yum, you can only do so when the packagekitd isn't working on something.
I like the direction they're steering in, in that they want the GUI to show programs, not packages.
He showed the current update-manager, listing a bunch of undecipherable packages to update. Then the mac update-manager, showing a list of actual programs it wants to update, but it wanted to download the whole program again. They want to do a bit of both, sort of "3KiB of Pidgin will be updated".
I could see myself completely switching to it and forgetting apt-get once they reach v1.0.?.
Hope I got that mostly right.
pkcon FTW?
Some of you may know it better as "the add/remove thing in ubuntu".
Presentation was by Richard Hughes, the project's creator. It's basically a repo. handler/depsolver which can sit atop deb or rpm.
It has a core component which runs as a demon, accepting requests from multiple users, and applications, and queueing them cleverly. Advantage is it's multi user (better for fast user switching), and the GUI & CLI don't need to be root, there's still security via PolicyKit. It can also handle updates.
If you adopt it totally you never need to see a locked package manager message again. And while you can still use apt-get/yum, you can only do so when the packagekitd isn't working on something.
I like the direction they're steering in, in that they want the GUI to show programs, not packages.
He showed the current update-manager, listing a bunch of undecipherable packages to update. Then the mac update-manager, showing a list of actual programs it wants to update, but it wanted to download the whole program again. They want to do a bit of both, sort of "3KiB of Pidgin will be updated".
I could see myself completely switching to it and forgetting apt-get once they reach v1.0.?.
Hope I got that mostly right.
pkcon FTW?