PackageKit policy: background and plans

[Seth Vidal]

On Tue, 24 Nov 2009, Francis Earl wrote:

>
> Would it be possible to do this similarly to Conary... only installing
> the files (.so's and things in /etc and /usr/share/{icons,sounds,...}
> etc) required by a given application (binary with .desktop file) ?
>
> This would provide similar to package splitting, but because of version
> control and something like google update, it can be effective to update
> only those files and applications when its parts are updated upstream...
> with something like presto only bringing in what changed, and something
> like jigdo allowing you to download each file from a different mirror,
> speeds can be quite quick and downloads quite small.
>

That would require massive changes to rpm.

it is not an undertaking that is likely to happen in my opinion.

-sv