F20 Self Contained Change: Application Installer

[Matthias Clasen]

On Wed, 2013-07-10 at 09:51 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Jul 2013 13:02:24 +0200
> Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > = 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. 
> 
> Would there be any value in keeping those around for a cycle or so for
> folks that prefer package centric updates? Or better to just ask them
> to move to yum/yumex/apper now?

I don't anticipate removing those tools in the short term - 'replace'
really means 'in the default install' and 'wrt to desktop integration'.