Feature Proposal: Use cases database

Christoph Höger choeger at cs.tu-berlin.de
Wed Sep 10 15:42:28 UTC 2008


Am Mittwoch, den 10.09.2008, 16:14 +0100 schrieb Richard Hughes:
> On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 01:23 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> > Even better than talking about it would be creating the exact package 
> > lists that best enable a variety of use cases and a handy way of
> > telling yum/packagekit to duplicate them on your machine.  Then anyone
> > else who needed to do the same thing would have a push-button choice.
> > The idea should be that anyone could 'publish' their installed package
> > set and describe why they think it is best for a particular use, and
> > anyone who was convinced by their description/reputation, etc. could
> > just clone that setup.
> 
> PackageKit already supports catalogs, which is pretty much what you
> describe.
> 
> Have a look here http://www.packagekit.org/pk-faq.html#catalogs and tell
> me if that does what you need.
> 
> Richard.
> 
> 

Hey, that sounds nice, as it fits perfectly into the "detect what if I
have all that software installed" hole. I assume there is an 'just
check' mode or the user is at least prompted, what parts are missing?  
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