On Mon, 9 Jan 2012 11:37, Roger Luedecke
On Mon, 2012-01-09 at 04:50 +0100, Yamaban wrote: <snip>
PS: Sorry for the rant, but the polkit hassle is just to much to bear. The memory used by polkit and consorts can be used better elsewhere.
I forked this discussion since I didn't want the thread hijacked. I think your scheme is very reasonable. However, frankly policykit has rarely gotten in my way or caused trouble... only in KDE, and mostly with Apper.
Honestly, KPackageKit/Apper has been a thorn in our side long enough. I really haven't much hope of getting it settled. Plus, it is simply overkill for simply doing updates. And as a package management tool, it is inadequate for the way we do things. What I mean by the last statement is since we often have different versions of a piece of software in different repos, and many of us have those repos, Apper fails to show why there are duplicate packages and doesn't give the versions. This is sloppy at best, potentially dangerous at worst.
Sorry, thread-jacking wasn't my intention. More laying the blame where it belongs, and a proposal of a workaround. On Apper's failings, I agree with you, but to be cautious: What info can apper get from the packagekit backend, all - incluing the different repos, repo-priorites, and depenencies? If yes, then it's appers fault, and sloppy programming. If no, then packagekit should be held responsible. As I said sorry for all the work that's going down the drain, but: "No Work - No Cookie" The already existing and identified troubles inside packagekit are many, and no real drive to solve them upstream could be found by me. So before we bark at the moon: - If we drop polkit, packagekit, and those packages that can not life without those, would OSS 12.2 be better OSS 12.1 than now? - What are doing the other distros to update their packages? * RedHat / Fedora / Centos : Yum and ??? * Ubuntu / Debian : deb and ??? * Mandrivia : ??? and ??? * Arch: ??? and ??? * openSUSE and SUSE : Yast and ??? - What the hell is used under Gnome on OSS 12.1 ? ( Sorry not on my 12.1 atm. ) - Let's get ugly but working, small, and fast: a TK/Tcl gui for zypper. - Yamaban, who says thanks for all the work you guys and gals do. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org