F20 Self Contained Change: Application Installer

Jiri Eischmann eischmann at redhat.com
Mon Jul 15 11:53:44 UTC 2013


Adam Williamson píše v St 10. 07. 2013 v 14:35 -0700:
> 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?
> 
> FWIW, everyone seems to hate gpk-application, so I doubt anyone would
> shed any tears over its loss. =) And if gpk-update-viewer has any
> committed fans, I ain't met 'em.

And AFAIK Yumex is still maintained and in Fedora repositories and IMHO
does the job better than gnome-packagekit. So I wouldn't worry about
getting rid of it completely either.

Jiri




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