On 3 Jun 2009, at 20:59, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
For instance, if you had a custom/minimal install with no PDF viewer
installed and double-clicked a PDF file in Nautilus or clicked a PDF
link in Firefox, it could start a helper gui that said:
No viewer for application/pdf is installed, but these viewers
were found in the package repositories you have configured,
would you like to install one to open this file?
pkg.opensolaris.org/release evince
pkg.opensolaris.org/contrib xpdf
pkg.sun.com/extras acroread
Sounds like part of what PackageKit offers on Linux, which supports
various package manager backends:
<http://www.packagekit.org>
It also provides a package manager GUI and other related features that
look a lot like the ones in OpenSolaris, but I'm guessing we probably
don't want to throw away everything we've done to replace it with
PackageKit. Licensing permitting, we might be able to reuse some of
their ideas, though...
Cheeri,
Calum.
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