Donnie Berkholz wrote: > I'd like to talk in more detail about this with someone, but nobody on > #gentoo-guis seemed to know why PackageKit wouldn't work for the simple > (no USE flag changes) case. Should I try the -guis mailing list instead?
Looking at the current feature set of PackageKit, there's no reason we couldn't add support for Gentoo. However, PackageKit is really meant for binary distros, and some design choices really rely on that. For instance, the PackageKit tray icon will ping the backend for updates every 30 minutes or so (default value), while this is perfectly fine for apt or yum where downloading the list of available updates takes about 2 seconds (just to check the HTTP headers to see if something has changed). Obviously, this can't be kept as is for our case. Also, PackageKit has its own conventions when it comes to packages being available for one platform. Again, its model fits right with binary distros and would require some major tweaking to fit our model, but I don't think it's out of our reach. Maybe one could start writing the search backend and the install/remove backend. That would be a nice step in the right direction :) Cheers, Rémi -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
