Re: crazy ideas for yum/pup/that_damned_applet

[Bill Nottingham <notting redhat com>]

seth vidal (skvidal phy duke edu) said: 
> >Once an app such as the cracklet or yum, or whatever, has been notified
> >of the update, it can call over dbus to the PM to get information on
> >the update, the changelog, etc. Then it can display its pretty little
> >dialog, and poke the PM over dbus to invoke yum/pup/whatever to do the
> >update.
> 
> 
> Well a good place to start with code is something than the c-daemon can
> execute to update the cache and look for updates. anyone know much about
> sending dbus events from a python app?

dbus actually comes with python bindings... you could write the entire
manager in python if you so desire.

Bill