Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: eselect_zenity: alpha eselect GUI

[Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@gentoo.org>]

On 20:22 Tue 13 Nov     , Markus Ullmann wrote:
> Doug Klima schrieb:
> > While I haven't had much time to work on the bits, Gentopia does contain
> > PolicyKit (though the 0.7 snapshots that appear do have some issues and
> > you should stick to the 0.6 series). It's hopefully going to be the way
> > forward for Gentoo to use PolicyKit. As many may know, Fedora has made
> > this commitment and Ubuntu is starting to contribute more back and be
> > involved a bit more.
> 
> The gui project peoples along with two contributors and upstream already
> looked into that and at best we could use this notify feature for glsa.
> Gentoo is just too different to sanely work with it for full updates.
> Stuff like selecting useflags, outputting important changes, needed
> configuration updates afterwards and some more issues are plain not
> doable with packagekit.

I'd like to talk in more detail about this with someone, but nobody on 
#gentoo-guis seemed to know why PackageKit wouldn't work for the simple 
(no USE flag changes) case. Should I try the -guis mailing list instead?

Thanks,
Donnie
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