On 14 October 2011 11:36, Samuel Verschelde <[email protected]> wrote: > Le vendredi 14 octobre 2011 20:33:29, Per Øyvind Karlsen a écrit : >> 2011/10/14 Samuel Verschelde <[email protected]>: >> > Le vendredi 14 octobre 2011 19:30:01, Samuel Verschelde a écrit : >> >> Le vendredi 14 octobre 2011 16:19:18, Per Øyvind Karlsen a écrit : >> >> > I've started to ramble on some of the features, issues, ideas etc. to >> >> > work on and consider >> >> > for our (Mandriva Linux) next development cycle, and in the interest >> >> > of sharing work and >> >> > coordinating efforts with others, while inviting others to contribute: >> >> > http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Development/Tasks/Packaging/Tools/RPM/TODO >> >> > >> >> > While it's certainly written from a vendor POV (and also rather crude >> >> > for the moment), I'm cross-posting >> >> > this one as it's of potential interest to others as well and the idea >> >> > is for things to be as generic as >> >> > possible anyhows.. :) >> >> > >> >> > So I invite others with the interest to contribute to the discussion >> >> > on the list and wiki, proposing >> >> > ideas, gather a list of issues that needs to be addressed, and do some >> >> > general brainstorming >> >> > and uhm.. "stuff". ;) >> >> >> >> I don't know RPM internals well, the only thing that comes to my mind is >> >> improved packagekit support for Mandriva / Mageia. >> >> Don't necessarily need to know RPM internals for proposing features, >> or issues you'd >> like to see be solved. :) >> >> > Maybe also the package management related items in the Mageia 2 specs can >> > be of interest: >> > http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=iso2:technical_specification#package_m >> > anagement_infrastructure >> >> Ah, yes, most certainly. :) >> >> I can leave some comments on your wiki, while adding what I personally >> find useful and interesting to my >> wiki page where I'll keep track of it's current progress (at my end at >> least;). > > Please note that this wiki page is readonly (don't trust the wiki if it lets > you edit it). The place for discussion is bugzilla (each item should have an > entry in bugzilla, even if it's not the case currently). > > Best regards > > Samuel >
Improving packagekit would be great, not having a qt based package manager is annoying. The only other thing that I would like to see, although i think it is more or a urpm issue than rpm is adding parallel downloads, so that when packages are being installed, it keeps on downloading the next set to be installed. Schultz
