Fedora 9 Preview: Successful Install Report

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Tue Apr 22 21:42:00 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 21:00 -0700, Peter Gordon wrote:
> PackageKit/PolicyKit: WONDERFUL. I love the work you developers are
> doing with these things.

Thanks. :-)

> The only regression I saw from Pirut/Yumex is
> that there was no way to select and install multiple packages at once.

On the TODO for 0.2.0 - if you want to help, just on the packagekit
mailing list and suggest UI for this. I'm not convinced a [x] foo [ ]
bar is the best way to do this.

> However, I found after some experimenting that I was able to easily
> select one package, click Install, then select others and click Install
> again, and they would be queued as sequential transactions. Spiffy.

Yup. And in 0.2.0 we'll support GPG signing that doesn't suck. :-)

Richard.





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