Re: Making PackageKit work with pirut and pup

[Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>]

On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 14:16 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> I think using alternatives is probably the best we can do for now.
> Unfortunately, it seems that the packaging guidelines contain no details
> on how to properly setup up a package for using alternatives (except for
> a passing mention in
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Conflicts ). One example I could
> find quickly is in the cdrkit spec - I have no idea if it is a good
> example, though.

Sure, cheers for confirming.

> But solving the system-install-packages problem should not block
> PackageKit from entering the repo, I think. PackageKit is useful even if
> it doesn't have system-install-packages yet.

Cool, thanks. There are no file conflicts, you just have to use
pk-install-package rather than system-install-packages.

Richard.