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By: rtaycher

rtaycher — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:41:47 +0000

Maybe he means he doesn’t like the GUI?

By: hughsie

hughsie — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:41:29 +0000

>the new interfaces just don’t go well with me

What troubles you? The fact that the session interface is synchronous or the fact there is a new API? Just curious…

By: Vadim

Vadim — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:36:23 +0000

The only thing I’m liking about PackageKit is the application intergration. The new interfaces, unfortunately, just don’t go well with me at all nor the idea behind them.

Will be an application user once it makes its way in Ubuntu.

By: hughsie

hughsie — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:49:24 +0000

@Craig:
Yes, end user applications would use the session API (or system if the want ultimate control) — see http://www.packagekit.org/pk-faq.html#session-methods for more details.

By: Craig

Craig — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:31:09 +0000

Are distributions the only users of PackageKit or would we expect end user applications to use it to make it easier to install theme’s, add-on’s, or related software?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:39:00 +0000

Whoa, that was fast, thanks!

By: hughsie

hughsie — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:24:51 +0000

>perhaps it’ll be available a bit later

I’ve refreshed the public pages, and it’s available here: http://www.packagekit.org/pk-users.html

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:59:20 +0000

Sounds cool, however I’d like to see where the list is, perhaps it’ll be available a bit later?

By: Paul W. Frields

Paul W. Frields — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:58:54 +0000

I like PackageKit, and I want everyone else to know why. I recently requested that the Fedora Docs team adjust our software management guide to put PackageKit usage up front, and save advice on yum for specific backend chapters concerning configuration. I still run yum frequently out of habit, but if I were directing new users I would have no qualms about having them choose the PK applications from the menu and have at it. Certainly there’s still a ways to go to get to the point of users not needing to know details like package names, but for now PK is still, for my book, the most friendly, useful, and freedesktop-compliant (and software freedom loving) system out there.