== Package Management BoF: Tuesday, 1900 ==

== Warty ==

Synaptic as default mechanism, not much more.


== Hoary ==
Lots of shiny new stuff either already here or on the way.

=== upgrade-notifier ===
 * notification area icon (icon needs work)
 * based on cronjob as root for apt-get update can't ask it to update and then download
 * runs update-manager or synaptic with gksudo if upgrades are available
 
=== update-manager ===
 * actually show new updates; shells out Synaptic to do the real work (downloading/installing)
 
=== gnome-app-install ===
 * pygtk app: xdg menus translated into add/remove apps, with same structure
 * uses its own .desktop files, collected at build time                             for Hoary
 * ui argument about insta-apply vs set stuff + apply vs confirm-on-apply;                      consensus on instant-apply (because you usually want to only install one application in this use-case)

=== gnome-software-properties ===
 * shiny
 * system settings -> software properties should go
 * have this dialog as the Preferences button from g-a-i/synaptic
 * fix displayed version (it's 4.10;5.04)
 * make the update-intervall configurable

=== misc ===
 * add action "update" to some point in the menu
 * maybe there should be some decentralized way to download packages, like BitTorrent, in addition to HTTP download?

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