Linux and application installing

[James Antill]

On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 16:54 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On 7 September 2010 16:39, James Antill <james at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> >  However this is very much the same problem as a user trying to find
> > "sql server" and getting results like "voms-mysql-plugin" etc. If you
> > intentionally ignore this problem, it just means even more work in the
> > long term as we have to change the metadata and any/all tools to cope.
> 
> "Users" don't install SQL servers[1].

 Please read the paragraph I wrote that started:

        You might well argue that gnome-PK's target users shouldn't see
        "postgresql-server" in any results

...if we _both_ read what the other has written, it will make discussion
much easier.

> [1] My definition of users are 3 actual people:
> http://packagekit.org/pk-profiles.html