On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 3:07 PM, <jpriti...@pobox.com> wrote: > Martin Langhoff wrote: >> Of course, Sugar Shell then asks the _distro_ tools to satisfy the >> requirements (PackageKit may be a good abstraction, otherwise a bit of >> glue to drive yum and apt might be needed). > > This makes sense to me. All of yum, apt, and pk have a notion of package > and version. That should be enough for impure XO bundles to identify and > request dependencies via XO metadata info.
PackageKit would be the obvious choice here as its OS / package management agnostic. So the Fedora people automatically have it work with yum/rpm and the ubuntu/debian get apt support and the sugar guys only have to write one piece of code for all of it. Peter _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
