On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 08:24:08AM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 12:10 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > It is used by yum in some way? > > Other way round. It uses yum. It's an attempt at a "universal" interface > that's independent of the underlying package management system. On > Fedora, it's essentially a GUI for yum, but not the only one. [...snip...]
Not only that, but unlike yum (which of course I like and use often), PackageKit is D-Bus aware so it can be responsive to things happening on the desktop, such as opening a specific kind of file when you don't have a handler installed already. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
