RFC: On-demand package installation API in kdelibs

Alex Merry kde at randomguy3.me.uk
Wed Jul 28 23:40:35 BST 2010


  On 28/07/10 20:07, Sune Vuorela wrote:
> void tryProvide(const QString& appname, const QString& explanation,
>                  featurekind, const QString&  feature);

With this sort of API, the distro could easily just have a 
script/plugin/whatever (and we could make that the default) that pops up 
a dialog saying "you need to install <something> to enable <something>".

Alex




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