PackageKit policy: background and plans

[Seth Vidal]

On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Colin Walters wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:02 PM, James Morris <jmorris at namei.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Possibly (it could simply be that an updated policy is weaker for some
>> reason) -- but it doesn't matter, there should be no way to change MAC
>> policy without MAC privilege.
>
> It'd be nice here if we had the ability to only grant the ability to
> install applications, not packages.  We could possibly do this even
> now inside PackageKit by always downloading the filelists data, and
> looking for a .desktop file.  It'd be even better if we could get at
> the data inside the .desktop file, but that's not necessary for this.
> That leaves aside the packagekit-command-not-found feature for unix
> binaries, but that's more of a technical use case.

Or - you could more easily generate the 'which pkgs have .desktop files' 
and propagate that into a package Provides.

since yum can install by provides - that takes care of that need.

example:

Provides: App('foo')

-sv