RFC: On-demand package installation API in kdelibs

[Martin Sandsmark]

Just a cent;

On Sunday 22. August 2010 00.21.28 Dario Freddi wrote:
> That said, in KDE history we always tried to circumvent those standards
> providing our own API for a variety of reasons. Some examples are
> HAL->Solid, PolicyKit->KAuth, GStreamer->Phonon and so on.

Phonon doesn't really map straight to GStreamer, and provides (in my 
experience) a much more stable API than what GStreamer has been able to 
provide (GStreamer has had several behavioural changes that has affected its 
users in a rather bad way), and very subjectively also a simpler and neater 
API, even if it maps to several different backends on several platforms.

I think the same also describes Solid (and its backends), and is something 
that our (KDEs) APIs should strive for (and I think Shaman is on a good track 
here).


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Martin T. Sandsmark