Blog post about package management (aimed at fedora)

[Colin Walters]

On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 11:28 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> I've blogged about package management in Fedora (and how it sucks in
> other distros too) and also discussed abstract per-system package
> management over DBUS interfaces.
> 
> I would appreciate feedback on
> http://hughsient.livejournal.com/31429.html either on the blog as
> comments, personal email, or just cc'd to the list.
> 
> This is obviously not a F8 target, more an idea I discussed with some
> other desktop hackers at GUADEC and FOSDEM earlier this year.

I think it's a fantastic idea.  The Mugshot client has a bit of code a
while ago which implements the "Install Now" link on
http://mugshot.org/applications that could be used as a starting point:

http://svn.mugshot.org/dumbhippo/trunk/client/linux/src/hippo-distribution.c