> We would love to use packagekit, but it does not support debconf or conffile > prompting. We attempted to contribute those missing features and > unfortunately they were not accepted on the ground that a packagekit > transaction can not be interrupted (for something like debconf or conffile > handling). This is a important feature for us and without it, e.g. sun-java > packages do not install."
That isn't true at all. Nobody from Ubuntu tried to contribute the missing functionality, but quite a few people insisted I wrote code to connect a VTE widget to the transaction which is very different to what actually needs to be done. Transactions can already be stopped and re-started with different options (see http://www.packagekit.org/gtk-doc/introduction-ideas- transactions.html#introduction-ideas-transactions-sig-install for how all this works) and questions can be put to the user. We already do that for EULAs, GPG keys and extended authentication prompts. We already use the EULA prompts in SUSE, and GPG prompts in Fedora. I'm just not letting a random script ask the user random non-localised questions. I am happy to add any number of abstract questions, as long as they are written in a nice way that other distributions can use. > So what i would like to know is, if this may may be possible in a future > release of PK or what? Sure, it just needs someone from Ubuntu to contribute the code. I guess it's harder contributing to a shared project than just writing _yet_another_ frontend to apt, but I guess that's the Ubuntu way. I don't want to seem like I'm bashing Ubuntu, as I think it's a great product, just the transparency and upstream ethos still needs quite a lot of work. In a few years time I hope you guys will realize that trying to be the one upstream source for all of the Linux desktop is impossible, and then hopefully will start working with other distributions in public. For what it's worth, Sebastian Heinlein has been doing a great job supporting the apt backend for PackageKit, but the reception PackageKit is getting in Ubuntu (especially for the integration points) is distinctly lukewarm. We need someone interested in this to actually write some code, rather than just decide it's "too hard" and run away and write more code that will be obsolete (in my opinion) in a few years anyway. If anyone actually wants to implement this, I've written quite a lot about it on the mailing lists, or I would happy to discuss things in person, on a conf call, or even on IRC. Thanks, Richard. -- Use Packagekit instead of gnome-app-install. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/423718 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
