https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=488388
Nate Graham <n...@kde.org> changed:
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Resolution|--- |DOWNSTREAM
Status|REPORTED |RESOLVED
CC| |n...@kde.org
--- Comment #2 from Nate Graham <n...@kde.org> ---
Agreed. I'm curious about how GNOME software does this, though. Maybe they've
hardcoded something by searching for the error text in PackageKit output?
In general in Discover we want to avoid that kind of thing as it's fragile and
a maintenance burden. So of the two options you presented:
> It should either just allow the install,
This is feasible, but it can't be done by Discover; the PackageKit backend
plugin would have to implement it. In this case, the DNF plugin.
> show a warning the user can click through.
Unfortunately this is not feasible because PackageKit does not expose choices
in its API for software center apps to show to users. This is a deliberate
design decision in PackageKit that the PackageKit maintainers are not
interested in changing. See https://github.com/PackageKit/PackageKit/issues/604
for more information.
I would recommend talking to the DNF PackageKit plugin maintainers about
changing the behavior in their code,
For more relevant historical information, see also
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1163737.
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