Comments on: PackageKit Collections

By: Kevin Kofler

Kevin Kofler — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 21:39:55 +0000

I’m afraid I think this is a very bad solution. Please read my post to the fedora-devel-list for what I don’t like about it:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-September/msg01870.html

By: zerwas

zerwas — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 12:00:04 +0000

Hah, great!
But in the screenshot one cannot see which packages will be installed with sound-and-video. Shouldn’t this information be given in the description of the collection?

By: Andreas Nilsson

Andreas Nilsson — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 23:34:55 +0000

Mike did a really nice job on the icons!
Can’t say much about the actual software as I haven’t tried it yet, and yeah, you know me, all about the graphics anyway…

By: Jack Tanner

Jack Tanner — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:32:24 +0000

Very nice. Could collections be sorted first? So, collections (alphabetically) first, then individual packages (alphabetically) after that.

Also, if you mark a collection to be installed, is it clear what packages will get pulled in with it?

By: hughsie

hughsie — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 07:53:03 +0000

@Bob:

Sure, you can make a codec colllection — it’ll even expand if you add the livna repo if the group name is the same. Internally it’s very similar to groupinstall.

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:40:44 +0000

Oh nice ! Could we make a catalog of audio codecs with this for example ?
Is it similar to yum groupinstall ?

By: hughsie

hughsie — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:26:02 +0000

@Dread Knight:

It does! kpackagekit!

By: Dread Knight

Dread Knight — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:00:19 +0000

Looking sweet! Hope kde4 will have something similar using qt4…

By: hughsie

hughsie — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:14:19 +0000

@oliver:

Not yet, but I guess it can. How the backend maps data to catalogs is completly left up to the backend author.

By: oliver

oliver — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:59:40 +0000

For APT, does this map directly to its “native” meta packages (like gnome-devel)?