Fedora 9 Beta, PackageKit and system-config-printer

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Mon Mar 17 15:43:26 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 12:03 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 20:09 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > One would have hoped the yum backend would take anything that yum
> > would take as an install option.  However in brief testing, this
> > doesn't appear to be true :/
> 
> No, as it has to be a bit more rigid so we can stay abstract between
> backends.

The abstraction in the backends doesn't need to leak through into the
frontends, though.  Just some backends won't support all of the same
functionality with the frontends.  This is already the case in the
add/remove software app

Jeremy




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