PackageKit "Vendor" URLs

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Fri Oct 24 19:32:47 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 14:58 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Bill Nottingham (notting at redhat.com) said: 
> > Tom spot Callaway (tcallawa at redhat.com) said: 
> > > Hi guys,
> > > 
> > > Here's my first pass at a very simple page to explain to PackageKit
> > > users why something they searched for was not found in Fedora:
> > > 
> > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageKit_Items_Not_Found
> > > 
> > > Feedback is welcomed. Keep in mind that we cannot make references to
> > > specific 3rd party repositories here.
> > 
> > The initial bits are rather repetitive. Not sure it can be avoided.
> > 
> > Under what circumstances is PackageKit looking for *drivers*?
> 
> We may want to explain what a 'codec' is, depending on how PackageKit
> is phrasing it before you get to this page. 

Done, thanks.

> For codecs and drivers,
> asking for them to be packaged may not be helpful, as:
> 
> - for codecs, if it's not there, it's either legal or it doesn't exist

I'm not sure about that. I don't want to assume we have every known
codec covered.

> - for drivers, we want them upstream

Good point. I've adjusted this section.

~spot




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