F20 Self Contained Change: Application Installer

[Matthias Clasen]

On Wed, 2013-07-10 at 11:12 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Jaroslav Reznik (jreznik at redhat.com) said: 
> > = Proposed Self Contained Change: Application Installer =
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/AppInstaller
> > 
> > Change owner(s): Richard Hughes <rhughes at redhat.com>, together with the 
> > desktop team
> > 
> > We will replace the existing gnome-packagekit frontends (gpk-update-viewer and 
> > gpk-application) by a new application. 
> 
> Does this involve large enough of a change to the backend PK APIs that other
> PK-using tools (apper, etc.) need to change?

(Richard is on vacation this week, I'll try to answer as well as I can)

>From my understanding, it does not necessarily involve any change of PK
backend apis. Although we may need some new apis related to metadata.
I'll ask Richard to flesh out that part of the change page when he's
back.