On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 13:14 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 11:03 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > > Why isn't this idea merged into PackageKit and the rest of the update > > infrastructure, which should take care of important notifications to > > users? > > > > Or were you expecting other types of notifications? > > The motivation for this system was that when we managed to break > PackageKit's notification system, we couldn't use the PK notification > system to tell people to install the update to fix the PK notification > system. =) > > (I suppose if we have two mechanisms, we'd have to try really hard to > break both of them at once. But I'm not really sure if a generic > mechanism for us to spam the user is a great idea.)
Right. So the problem is to not actually break PackageKit's notification system, not to add blue tack and scotch tape on top of it. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
