Re: Suggests/Recommends proposal [Was: Re: PackageKit in Fedora 15 (beta)]

2011-04-27 Thread tim.laurid...@gmail.com
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Matej Cepl mc...@redhat.com wrote: Dne 26.4.2011 18:23, Florian Festi napsal(a): I think if anybody can come up with a exact description how they should look like and how they should work and can create some evidence that this is want we need and want

Re: Suggests/Recommends proposal [Was: Re: PackageKit in Fedora 15 (beta)]

2011-04-27 Thread Kevin Kofler
tim.laurid...@gmail.com wrote: The hard part is to define what the package tools should do in the different cases A depsolver need to work with real requirements, so it need to be defined in what cases that a soft requirement will become a real requirements to do the right thing See my

Re: Suggests/Recommends proposal [Was: Re: PackageKit in Fedora 15 (beta)]

2011-04-27 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 12:47, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: tim.laurid...@gmail.com wrote: The hard part is to define what the package tools should do in the different cases A depsolver need to work with real requirements, so it need to be defined in what cases that a soft

Re: PackageKit in Fedora 15 (beta)

2011-04-26 Thread Ilyes Gouta
Hi Matěj, Ceterum autem censeo, Carthaginem esse delendam. So this is Latin, what does it mean? Btw, I'm from Tunisia (Tunis), the country of Carthage (historically) ;) -Ilyes On 26 avr. 2011, at 06:57, Matej Cepl mc...@redhat.com wrote: Dne 25.4.2011 21:26, Ilyes Gouta napsal(a):

Re: PackageKit in Fedora 15 (beta)

2011-04-26 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 08:11:20 +0100, IG wrote: Hi Matěj, Ceterum autem censeo, Carthaginem esse delendam. So this is Latin, what does it mean? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthago_delenda_est Note that the translated meaning is less interesting than how this phrase has been used. --

Re: PackageKit in Fedora 15 (beta)

2011-04-26 Thread Matej Cepl
Dne 26.4.2011 09:11, Ilyes Gouta napsal(a): Ceterum autem censeo, Carthaginem esse delendam. So this is Latin, what does it mean? Btw, I'm from Tunisia (Tunis), the country of Carthage (historically) ;) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthago_delenda_est ... it is used for somebody who is

Re: PackageKit in Fedora 15 (beta)

2011-04-26 Thread Matej Cepl
Dne 26.4.2011 09:36, Richard W.M. Jones napsal(a): A simple 'Recommends:package list', known about by RPM but otherwise ignored by RPM, would allow tools that knew they were talking to a real person to make a sensible list of recommendations based on the packages the user already had installed

Re: PackageKit in Fedora 15 (beta)

2011-04-26 Thread Kevin Kofler
Daniel Mach wrote: From my POV, RPM Requires should contain only deps which are *required* for a particular package. Suggests/Recommends is really missing AIUI, Suggests/Recommends was almost accepted in rpm.org (BTW, rpm5.org has had it for ages), but the yum developers blocked it. :-/ IMHO

Re: PackageKit in Fedora 15 (beta)

2011-04-26 Thread Matej Cepl
Dne 26.4.2011 15:31, Kevin Kofler napsal(a): AIUI, Suggests/Recommends was almost accepted in rpm.org (BTW, rpm5.org has had it for ages), but the yum developers blocked it. :-/ I have to defend Seth here ... in the last flamewar on this theme he admitted that introducing Suggests/Recommends

Re: PackageKit in Fedora 15 (beta)

2011-04-26 Thread Florian Festi
On 04/26/2011 05:21 PM, Matej Cepl wrote: Dne 26.4.2011 15:31, Kevin Kofler napsal(a): AIUI, Suggests/Recommends was almost accepted in rpm.org (BTW, rpm5.org has had it for ages), but the yum developers blocked it. :-/ Well, having Suggests/Recommends in RPM only does buy you anything as RPM

Re: PackageKit in Fedora 15 (beta)

2011-04-26 Thread Kevin Kofler
Florian Festi wrote: I think if anybody can come up with a exact description how they should look like and how they should work and can create some evidence that this is want we need and want implementing them is not the problem[*]. Until now no one has come up with a proposal and enough

Re: PackageKit in Fedora 15 (beta)

2011-04-26 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 18:23 +0200, Florian Festi wrote: I have to defend Seth here ... in the last flamewar on this theme he admitted that introducing Suggests/Recommends would be question of half an hour (maybe he didn't mean it literally) and he would be willing to do it in the moment

Re: PackageKit in Fedora 15 (beta)

2011-04-26 Thread seth vidal
On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 09:57 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 18:23 +0200, Florian Festi wrote: I have to defend Seth here ... in the last flamewar on this theme he admitted that introducing Suggests/Recommends would be question of half an hour (maybe he didn't mean

Re: PackageKit in Fedora 15 (beta)

2011-04-26 Thread James Antill
On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 19:23 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: Florian Festi wrote: I think if anybody can come up with a exact description how they should look like and how they should work and can create some evidence that this is want we need and want implementing them is not the problem[*].

Re: PackageKit in Fedora 15 (beta)

2011-04-26 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 04/26/2011 11:25 PM, James Antill wrote: SuSE with rpm+zypper does have recommends/suggests, and is somewhat close to rpm+yum (kind of). But I don't know how much it is used ... and I don't know what it's behaviour is. I also don't know what problems they solve with it, and how well it

Suggests/Recommends proposal [Was: Re: PackageKit in Fedora 15 (beta)]

2011-04-26 Thread Matej Cepl
Dne 26.4.2011 18:23, Florian Festi napsal(a): I think if anybody can come up with a exact description how they should look like and how they should work and can create some evidence that this is want we need and want implementing them is not the problem[*]. Until now no one has come up with a

Re: PackageKit in Fedora 15 (beta)

2011-04-26 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 13:55 -0400, James Antill wrote: rpm5 isn't used anywhere, so is irrelevant to any discussion on anything. Since Mandriva and Mageia split, Per Oyvind got to be Mandriva's RPM maintainer, and they have (not surprisingly) adopted RPM5. Not to say I think it's a good idea,

Re: PackageKit in Fedora 15 (beta)

2011-04-26 Thread Kevin Kofler
James Antill wrote: rpm5 isn't used anywhere, so is irrelevant to any discussion on anything. It's used in PLD and Ark Linux, at least. (Ark Linux is Bernhard Rosenkränzer's project, the ex-RH-KDE-maintainer who has just as much a grudge against RH as RPM5's Jeff Johnson, so it's no wonder

Re: PackageKit in Fedora 15 (beta)

2011-04-26 Thread Genes MailLists
On 04/26/2011 10:19 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: James Antill wrote: There may well be plenty of good uses for such a soft dependency .. For example it sounds useful for R which has a hard depend on texlive at the moment - but its only used for docs - so it would be way way better to be a soft

Re: PackageKit in Fedora 15 (beta)

2011-04-25 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 12:25:16AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 04/24/2011 11:54 PM, Ilyes Gouta wrote: Hi, I filed a bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699263 -Ilyes PackageKit isn't just a yum frontend and is likely to be integrated more and more with key

Re: PackageKit in Fedora 15 (beta)

2011-04-25 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 04/25/2011 01:46 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: PackageKit frequently *breaks* the yum command line, because it has some unkillable (self-resurrecting) process that acquires a lock and prevents yum from running. It's a bug that we can't remove it. You can edit the values in

Re: PackageKit in Fedora 15 (beta)

2011-04-25 Thread Matej Cepl
Dne 25.4.2011 10:35, Rahul Sundaram napsal(a): You can [...] remove PackageKit-yum-plugin. Unfortunately not ... it takes away (among other things bluez, control-center, gammu, gdm, gnome-bluetooth, orca, and gnome-shell). Anybody any ideas how to get rid of it? Best, Matěj -- devel

Re: PackageKit in Fedora 15 (beta)

2011-04-25 Thread Genes MailLists
On 04/25/2011 04:35 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 04/25/2011 01:46 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: PackageKit frequently *breaks* the yum command line, because it has some unkillable (self-resurrecting) process that acquires a lock and prevents yum from running. It's a bug that we can't remove

Re: PackageKit in Fedora 15 (beta)

2011-04-25 Thread Ilyes Gouta
Hi Matej, Christoph Wickert provided an analysis in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699263 -Ilyes On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 8:19 PM, Matej Cepl mc...@redhat.com wrote: Dne 25.4.2011 10:35, Rahul Sundaram napsal(a): You can [...] remove PackageKit-yum-plugin. Unfortunately not

Re: PackageKit in Fedora 15 (beta)

2011-04-25 Thread Matej Cepl
Dne 25.4.2011 21:26, Ilyes Gouta napsal(a): Christoph Wickert provided an analysis in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699263 Which again lead to my broken gramophone song … we suck for not having Suggests/Recommends. Ceterum autem censeo, Carthaginem esse delendam. Matěj --

PackageKit in Fedora 15 (beta)

2011-04-24 Thread Ilyes Gouta
Hi, Removing PackageKit In Fedora 14 was easy and painless since it causes up to 5 packages, all *really* related to PackageKit in the form of a yum-plugin and few other things. On Fedora 15, trying to yum remove PackageKit causes the system to attempt removing up to 74 MB worth of software,

Re: PackageKit in Fedora 15 (beta)

2011-04-24 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 24.04.2011 20:04, schrieb Ilyes Gouta: Hi, Removing PackageKit In Fedora 14 was easy and painless since it causes up to 5 packages, all *really* related to PackageKit in the form of a yum-plugin and few other things. On Fedora 15, trying to yum remove PackageKit causes the system to

Re: PackageKit in Fedora 15 (beta)

2011-04-24 Thread Ilyes Gouta
Hi, I filed a bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699263 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699263-Ilyes On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.netwrote: Am 24.04.2011 20:04, schrieb Ilyes Gouta: Hi, Removing PackageKit In Fedora 14 was

Re: PackageKit in Fedora 15 (beta)

2011-04-24 Thread Richard Hughes
On 24 April 2011 19:24, Ilyes Gouta ilyes.go...@gmail.com wrote: I filed a bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699263 I've commented on this, and closed it NOTABUG. Sorry. Richard -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: PackageKit in Fedora 15 (beta)

2011-04-24 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 04/24/2011 11:54 PM, Ilyes Gouta wrote: Hi, I filed a bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699263 -Ilyes PackageKit isn't just a yum frontend and is likely to be integrated more and more with key components as we go forward. If you aren't actively using the GNOME or KDE

Re: PackageKit in Fedora 15 (beta)

2011-04-24 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 04/25/2011 12:36 AM, Ilyes Gouta wrote: Rahul, If you aren't actively using the GNOME or KDE frontend, just remove those and leave the framework as it is. That was tough :) AFAIK (and I might be wrong) deep PacakgeKit integration wasn't clearly mentioned in Fedora 15's feature set

Re: PackageKit in Fedora 15 (beta)

2011-04-24 Thread Ilyes Gouta
Hi Rahul, It isn't a feature that is driven by Fedora and hence it won't be in the feature list. It is just what happens when more upstream software take advantage of it over time.. Yes, NOW it's clear! Thanks Rahul! -Ilyes On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 8:16 PM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com