mdvpkg is a wrapper upon mandriva urpmi database to provide non-privileged users access to package maintenance tasks (upgrade, installing, searching).
mdvpkg's Introduction
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mdvpkg - the mandriva package management daemon
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mdvpkg is a wrapper upon mandriva urpmi database to provide
non-privileged users access to package maintenance tasks (upgrade,
installing, searching). Its development was initiated to support the
implementation of Mandriva Package Manager.
The following features are aimed:
* D-Bus interface allowing the creation of specialized clients (like
an update applet, or end-users application managers)
* Unprivileged management tasks through PolicyKit
* Support for urpmi input (like dep choices from clients)
* A command line client
* Python QT/QML widgets to manage package tasks
It's inspired on ideas from PackageKit and aptdaemon.