[Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] Long-term support for Sugar

[Peter Robinson]

Hi Chris,

> Hi Peter,
>
>   > Its called PackageKit :-) See discussions from previously... And
>   > with the good python bindings for it there shouldn't even be too
>   > much work to add support for that into the control panel. And the
>   > other massive advantage that PackageKit has is that it works with
>   > multiple package backends so it will with Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu,
>   > SuSE and alot of other distros as well so it should be usable by
>   > all distros :-)
>
> Would it be safe against someone trying to gain root in a %post
> script, though?

TBH I'm not 100% sure on that as I'm not a PackageKit developer but I
believe that is addressed by ConsoleKit and as its in use on Fedora
and I'm pretty sure Ubuntu and others (and I'm pretty sure its an
external dependency of gnome too) I'm sure that issue has been
addressed.

Peter