[Sugar-devel] The ARM is near

[Peter Robinson]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 3:07 PM, <jpritikin at pobox.com> wrote:
> Martin Langhoff wrote:
>> Of course, Sugar Shell then asks the _distro_ tools to satisfy the
>> requirements (PackageKit may be a good abstraction, otherwise a bit of
>> glue to drive yum and apt might be needed).
>
> This makes sense to me. All of yum, apt, and pk have a notion of package
> and version. That should be enough for impure XO bundles to identify and
> request dependencies via XO metadata info.

PackageKit would be the obvious choice here as its OS / package
management agnostic. So the Fedora people automatically have it work
with yum/rpm and the ubuntu/debian get apt support and the sugar guys
only have to write one piece of code for all of it.

Peter