[gpodder-devel] Any interest in hooking into packagekit for pulling optional functionality on demand?

  • From: hillshum at gmail.com (Hilton Shumway)
  • Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:41:56 -0600

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta at gmail.com> wrote:

> So thinking in the context of how to build distribution packaging for
> optional gpodder functionality I was wondering if it would be possible
> to grow hooks into packagekit inside gpodder's interface so when a
> user wants to enable optional gpodder functionality that required an
> external package to be installed they can tick a radio box or click an
> enable button or something which will then call packagekit via the
> dbus hooks to install the necessary "something" that is missing on the
> system...without going into the packaging manager at all on your own.
>
> For reference for packagekit integration in yelp based documentation read:
>
> http://blogs.gnome.org/shaunm/2010/03/17/yelp-and-packagekit/
>

That would be cool. I would create a feature request for this at
bugs.gpodder.org


Hilton

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