John Vivirito wrote: > On 03/31/2009 06:19 PM, Evan wrote: >> While apt, synaptic, update-manager, and gnome-app-install all do decent >> jobs of providing front-ends for package management, there are a few >> issues and common feature requests which bear taking a look at. This is a >> strawman, so feel free to rip it apart as necessary. >> >> PolicyKit >> Synaptic runs fully as root. Unless there is a specific reason not to, >> should it not be migrated to PolicyKit? >> > > The reason they start up as root is because other than browsing the > packages is to install/remove and change repo settings. Most people that > browse packages will install at least one. I guess i don't get the idea.
I guess I can't parse your first sentence. One reason why I stopped ever using synaptic is _because_ it runs full time as root, and locks the apt database. 10 years ago Corel Linux had a version of kpackage that only did what it had to as root, and kept the database locked as little as possible. I spend at least twice as much time using package managers to browse, than to actually install. >> Parallelism >> Starting the install process in parallel with the download process as >> soon as the first packages are finished downloading. (I got this idea >> from brainstorm, but I can no longer find the relevant idea.) > > By this you mean being able to browse packages while upgrade/install > packages? Than start download of the packages you choose to > upgrade/install? No, he means "install" some packages while others are still downloading. I can see that being very advantageous to a dial-up user, but I wonder if it can even be possible. -- derek -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
