On Sun, 2014-02-16 at 14:38 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
On 14 February 2014 21:43, Przemek Klosowski
<przemek.klosowski(a)nist.gov> wrote:
> If we are providing a next-generation UI for installing, to replace yum
That's not what we're doing.
To expand a bit: insofar as Software - the tool we're discussing here,
and the tool to which the "require applications to ship appdata"
requirement applies - replaces anything, it replaces gnome-packagekit.
It is not replacing yum.
The old gnome-packagekit was a 'graphical package installer', just like
yumex and apper. The new gnome-software is (with a bit of a handwave) an
'application installer'. That's a difference, but it's not relevant to
yum at all, and I doubt many people used gpk to install gcc. For those
who really want a GUI package installer, the old gpk is still available
in a not-installed-by-default package (though I assume Richard will
eventually drop it), and yumex is always an option.
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