Am Donnerstag, 30. Juli 2009 23:20:36 schrieb Mounir Lamouri:
> The backend is now ready. You should be able to do anything in a
> beta/realease candidate quality.

That is a damn interesting information. Sounds great! 

> - configuration file update

In the means of "cfg-update -u" or similar? 

> - messages / warning / errors show
> They are not critical for testing but only for a daily usage.



> I've already done the portage work for the first feature but I will have
> to add signal to packagekit because even if debian also needs it, it
> hasn't been implemented yet. The bad thing is GUI will probably not
> manage this feature since a quite long time.

(sorry if I sound dumb, just want to be sure I didn't misunderstand) does that 
mean that you'll be adding the config updating stuff to packagekit, so we'll 
have a cross-distro way of telling the package manager to update the configs? 

> About the packaging. I've worked on a packagekit ebuild and even if I
> didn't take time to add it to the tree it could be done without a lot of
> work but there is not real need at the moment because -as I said before-
> without a GUI, packagekit is quite useless and last version of
> gnome-packagekit needs a version gnome-policykit that is not in the tree.

Could you post the ebuild in here? 

I wanted to test KPackageKit since I saw it in Kubuntu :) 

- http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/KPackageKit?content=84745

> After these two features, I will probably have some small things and
> bugs and I will move to big things for packagekit or portage needed to
> make the backend better. Indeed, there are a lot of things I've listed
> that are not really needed for a working backend and too big to be part
> of the gsoc. For example, merging layman into portage (actually, API
> will be easy but UI probably less) and having a non-verbose portage API
> because backends are using stdout for signals.

Wow, that sounds like great changes! 

Many thanks for tackling them! Gentoo might yet become useful for GUI-addicts 
;) 

> If by any chance, you test the backend, do not hesitate to contact me
> for bug reports or comments.

I don't know if I'll manage to grab enough time to do real testing, but I'll 
try. 

I asked for status, because I think that packagekit can be a huge step in 
usability for Gentoo, so I was curious how your project works out. 

Best wishes, 
Arne

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