On 2021-11-08 9:31 a.m., Neal Gompa wrote:
On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 9:25 AM Frantisek Zatloukal fzatlouk@redhat.com wrote:
On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 3:05 PM Kamil Paral kparal@redhat.com wrote:
"dnf install foo bar"
This is a single operation, comparable to having multiple packages installed via graphical package manager, not scheduling multiple operations at once. It would be the same If a graphical package manager offered to select multiple packages/applications and then start the transaction.
"dnf install foo; dnf install bar" This is equivalent to:
- Open Graphical package manager
- Install foo
- Close Graphical package manager
- Open Graphical package manager
- Install bar
- Close Graphical package manager
dnfdragora supports doing install + upgrade + removal in the same transaction. This is equivalent to using "dnf shell" to construct a transaction in the CLI.
It is technically possible to do this with PackageKit too, but neither Discover nor Software expose this as far as I know.
Did I miss something in this thread? Given that the current Gnome graphical package manager requires a full and expensive reboot in between every install for virtually every package for mostly-defective reasons, how would you actually install two packages sequentially like that? Are you suggesting that the current and IMHO poorly-thought-through package manager be finally replaced? If so, hoorah!!!
I'm all for stealing the code from tracer or the Ubuntu installer to identify what needs restarting, and maybe putting out a flag to prevent bug submissions while the running packages are not up-to-date. I believe that would completely eliminate the mandatory reboots, and allow the package manager to move forward properly.