Fedora 9 Beta, PackageKit and system-config-printer

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Mar 17 15:07:13 UTC 2008


Jesse Keating (jkeating at redhat.com) said: 
> On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 12:04 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > What's the usecase? This doesn't seem particularly easy to use in this
> > form.
> 
> Grasping.  Pre-compiled application launch attempt, get message about
> missing libraries, feed those missing libraries into package kit to get
> the things that would provide those.  The world does not consist of just
> pre-packaged distro provided software :/

Resolving to install packages that provide arbitrary requirements;
this could be 'smtpdaemon', or provides generated by packages that
handle particular mime types, or...

Bill




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