The device can be automatically mounted. It can be checked by its
label that is the original label released with the distro.
I think that should exists a relation between packages and the
repositories on a cached manner. If the repository is on a umounted
device (USB, CD/DVD-ROM) and is not possible to find it on a online
repository or does not exist a active Internet connection, should be
prompted to the user to put / plug the device and a additional thread
is on background checking if the device is mounted by label. A timeout
should be used on check thread to does not put the PackageKit to sleep
forever waiting the path to be mounted.
Should exists a functionality to collect data from the repositories on
media, giving the user the chance to put each DVD/CD on a scanning
process that is stored on the yum / PackageKit database.
Should exists a configuration option to try to search first on offline
repositories giving the user the chance to try use the media before
try to download packages from Internet.
I think that with this the PackageKit is not the responsible to mount the media.
Only ideas.
Thank you.
Best regards.
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 5:08 AM, Andrew Haley a...@redhat.com wrote:
On 05/09/2010 02:28 PM, Frank Murphy wrote:
On 09/05/10 13:34, Hedayat Vatankhah wrote:
If you have not see this at all, I've seen this frequently. Fedora
sucks in this area for many years. I've seen it, so whatever
arguments you bring; I KNOW that this bug IS very important and
should be fixed.
Currently there are various threads, about what Fedora is targeted at,
those questions as yet rmein without a proper answr.
Excuse me, I'm looking for a solution, not for wiping the problem
statement.
The solution for a new user to Linux, give hime Ubuntu-LTS.
When he knows some more, give him Fedora.
This is a bad argument IMO. Many users are advanced in some areas,
but not others. The whole idea that Fedora is a distro for advanced
users therefore it should be hard to use is absurd. The ability to
install packages from a DVD just as easily as from the repos would be
useful to a great many.
Andrew.
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