On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 12:49:26 +0100
Martin Sourada <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 12:27:13 +0100 
> Matthias Runge wrote:
> > > If there was an easy way to install them for users, sure... but
> > > that needs PackageKit, which we dropped in favor of yumex.
> > That's sad. Maybe we want to revert this decision? But: would that
> > be a step forward? I really can't say.
> Ah, yes, I would also be for keeping the packagekit related stuff in.
> True, PK looks a bit strange in a xfce environment but the "install
> missing codecs", "install detected printer's driver" and "click to
> install" are rather useful features... I cannot say anything about the
> main interface though -- I never liked yumex (but it's a couple of
> years since I last tried it) and PK also never grew on me -- looks
> like I'm stuck on command line yum forever, so I'm not very fit to
> give opinions on gui package managers.

I'm not sure those features actually work under Xfce in any case. 

I know there's no updates indicator in Xfce. Also, I think PackageKit
pulls in a bunch more gnome stuff we don't want/use. 

I also use yum (or dnf if I am feeling dangerous), but I think yumex is
a better fit for our spin. 

kevin

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