low-hanging fruit

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 14:34 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 14:04 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> > On 8/21/07, David Zeuthen <davidz at redhat.com> wrote:
> >         
> >         
> >         - Note that "default in mainline Fedora" doesn't preclude the
> >         desktop
> >            spin from using PackageKit instead of Pirut.
> > 
> > Hmm.  That seems like a really big change to be making from mainline
> > in a spin.  I think a good goal for spin changes is to think hard
> > about putting in changes that we do want to go down into the OS in
> > general.  
> 
> Hey, let's not get carried away; this is not a OS-level change, it's, in
> effect, simply just another UI frontend for yum, not much different from
> pirut/pup, yumex, whatever except that it's designed to solve the
> problem in a much nicer way (at least some of us think) both from a
> technical point and an user experience point of view. There's no reason
> to fear change.
> 

>From a technical point it doesn't solve the problem in a different way
at all. I've been helping Richard with scripts to backend packagekit
with yum and the scripts are extremely simple. To be clear - some of the
user experience items are really just papering over the security
questions and hoping no one notices that right now PackageKit is the
equivalent of:

 yum -y do_whatever_just_be_quiet_about_it.

-sv