F20 Self Contained Change: Application Installer

[drago01]

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Kamil Paral <kparal at redhat.com> wrote:
>> > So, do I understand you correctly that you as Yum/Dnf guys would be ok to
>> > have a different backend for GUI and non-GUI use cases as mentioned in
>> > this thread and agreed by FESCo previously? I'd be more than happy to
>> > see your sign off for this change and state this too there.
>>
>> Well, it's a bit more complicated than that. Obviously there would be a
>> "problem" with both programs offering different combinations of packages in
>> some
>> cases. But combined with the fact that the use case/target group of users
>> (applications vs. packages) is different for both, I don't think it would be
>> that much of an issue.
>
> Wouldn't it be easier to keep gpk-application and gpk-update-viewer installed and set as default applications, and provide AppInstaller as an alternative, experimental program (also installed by default, perhaps)? In F20 conservative users could continue using gpk-* and interested users could start playing with AppInstaller. In F21 AppInstaller can be deemed stable and gpk-* can be removed from the default install.

No .. having two completely different user interfaces / experiences
for the same thing does not make much sense.