random thoughts on software installation

[Jeremy Katz]

On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 14:23 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
[snip]
> No support for conflicts[1], removing packages[2], installing multiple
> packages at a time[3] (if the user clicks multiple, just queue them up),

This is a fundamentally broken assumption.  Multiple packages are
required because packages can and do depend on other packages.  Even
things like python-paramiko, etc.

All that said -- it'd be trivial to split out the search bit of pirut
and have that run stand-alone.  But that doesn't get rid of the need to
do transactions, depsolving, etc. 

Jeremy