On Fri, 2013-07-19 at 07:02 -0400, Kamil Paral wrote: > > > So, do I understand you correctly that you as Yum/Dnf guys would be ok to > > > have a different backend for GUI and non-GUI use cases as mentioned in > > > this thread and agreed by FESCo previously? I'd be more than happy to > > > see your sign off for this change and state this too there. > > > > Well, it's a bit more complicated than that. Obviously there would be a > > "problem" with both programs offering different combinations of packages in > > some > > cases. But combined with the fact that the use case/target group of users > > (applications vs. packages) is different for both, I don't think it would be > > that much of an issue. > > Wouldn't it be easier to keep gpk-application and gpk-update-viewer installed > and set as default applications, and provide AppInstaller as an alternative, > experimental program (also installed by default, perhaps)? In F20 > conservative users could continue using gpk-* and interested users could > start playing with AppInstaller. In F21 AppInstaller can be deemed stable and > gpk-* can be removed from the default install.
This is the contingency plan. Depending on how far we get with the new application, it may well be enacted - the goals are pretty ambitious... -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
