<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 4:26 AM, Nirbheek Chauhan <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:nirbheek.chauhan@..." target="_blank">nirbheek.chauhan@...</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">

<div>On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Gustavo Serra Scalet<br>
&lt;<a href="mailto:gsscalet@..." target="_blank">gsscalet@...</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
&gt; What I have to ask is:<br>
&gt; - How great shall this backend be (at least for meeting the requirements for<br>
&gt; the GSoC program)? What I mean is what set of functions are expected to have<br>
&gt; in this new backend until the end of the program?<br>
<br>
</div>How much of it the student can implement is left entirely to the<br>
student both as a gauge of his understanding of the demands of the<br>
project, as well as his management and evaluation skills. This does<br>
not mean that the student who &quot;promises&quot; to get the most done will get<br>
selected, rather the student who (no matter how much he intends to do)<br>
can provide the best plan (as well as skills to back it up) will have<br>
an advantage.<br>
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&gt; I&#39;m beginning to study packagekit and some backends of it so more questions<br>
&gt; shall be posted here.<br>
&gt;<br>
<br>
</div>I would recommend looking at some of the other python backends and<br>
coming up with a skeleton &quot;backend&quot; (or architecture) for portage.<br>
This will be most fruitful in understanding PackageKit, and making a<br>
time-work-skill analysis.</blockquote><div><br>Ok, I found those backends in the source but before even trying to play with packagekit on gentoo I&#39;m going to understand packagekit. I plan on checking how it works with archlinux (there is a python backend for it (libalpm, pacman is just the frontend to this library)) on this week. <br>

<br>ps: I&#39;m also sending this e-mail to Donnie Berkholz because I&#39;d like to hear from him his opinions to design this idea. (Found his contact on the ideas page)<br><br>Thank you for your attention Nirbheek Chauhan!<br>

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