Re: PackageKit policy: background and plans

[Panu Matilainen <pmatilai laiskiainen org>]

On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Seth Vidal wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Colin Walters wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:02 PM, James Morris <jmorris namei org> wrote:
> > > Possibly (it could simply be that an updated policy is weaker for some
> > > reason) -- but it doesn't matter, there should be no way to change MAC
> > > policy without MAC privilege.
> >
> > It'd be nice here if we had the ability to only grant the ability to
> > install applications, not packages.  We could possibly do this even
> > now inside PackageKit by always downloading the filelists data, and
> > looking for a .desktop file.  It'd be even better if we could get at
> > the data inside the .desktop file, but that's not necessary for this.
> > That leaves aside the packagekit-command-not-found feature for unix
> > binaries, but that's more of a technical use case.
>
> Or - you could more easily generate the 'which pkgs have .desktop files' and 
> propagate that into a package Provides.
>
> since yum can install by provides - that takes care of that need.
>
> example:
>
> Provides: App('foo')

We're already collecting provides from .desktop files for mime types, 
adding more provides would be a no-brainer.

	- Panu -