Blog post about package management (aimed at fedora)

[dragoran]

Richard Hughes wrote:
> I've blogged about package management in Fedora (and how it sucks in
> other distros too) and also discussed abstract per-system package
> management over DBUS interfaces.
>
> I would appreciate feedback on
> http://hughsient.livejournal.com/31429.html 
"Do we have to make the API asynchronous?"
YES!!!
the best way to fix the progressbar hangs is multithreading.
let the gui draw its stuff, while a background thread does the real work.
yumex afaik works this way.