On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 05:56:18PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > Description : APT based installer using PackgeKit's session DBus API > sessioninstaller makes use of PackageKit's DBus information to allow > distribution neutral software management hooks for upstream software on > APT based systems without loosing the interactiveness.
A better description would be: Sessioninstaller allows applications to easily install additional software (e.g. extensions or GSreamer codecs) by calling a simple distribution neutral D-Bus interface. The confirmation, error reporting and progress notification of the installation is handled by sessioninstaller. Currently it comes only with a GTK based user interface. The D-Bus interface is developed under the PackageKit umbrella and is available on the session bus. The reference implementation can be found in gnome-packagekit. It was also adpoted by KPackageKit. In contrast to gnome-packagekit and KPackageKit it doesn't use the PackageKit daemon for querying and installation, but instead makes use of APT and aptdaemon directly (alternatively synaptic can be used). Cheers, Sebastian
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