splitting gnome-packagekit

Tim Lauridsen tim.lauridsen at googlemail.com
Sun Oct 26 17:25:17 UTC 2008


Richard Hughes wrote:
> Another packaging question, apologies.
>
> In https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468250, it was suggested
> that we split of the admin tools from the base package. At the moment
> there is the log viewer and the service pack creator, which are very
> much admin tools. They'll also soon be an advanced update viewer, which
> lets you select packages based on CVE's and more advanced criteria.
>
> These programs are probably not for the average user, and so it was
> suggested we split these files off as either:
>
> gnome-packagekit-admin
> gnome-packagekit-tools
> gnome-packagekit-extra
>
> Is there any guidelines for this? The first seems the most logical to
> me. Advice welcomed. Thanks.
>
> Richard.
>
>
>   
gnome-packagekit-extra is the best IMO.
because it is extra tools,  gnome-packagekit-admin sounds like something 
to admin packagekit, and an advanced update viewer, dont sound like
an admin tool i my book.

Tim




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