[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#699307: Bug#699307: network-manager-vpnc should mention network-manager-vpnc-gnome

[Matthias Klumpp]

Hi!

2013/2/4 Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org>:
> Hi,
>
> thinking more about that, I think having some PackageKit magic in
> network-manager-gnome would probably be a nice solution.
> Pre-installing all VPN plugins is not really something I want to do in
> the network-manager package.
> Maybe we could list all VPN plugins in the Add dialog, even if they are
> not installed. And PackageKit does the installation on demand.
>
> Matthias, Dan, does something like sounds feasible?
Yes, absolutely! :) The UI should only somehow indicate that some
plugins have to be installed, and are not already present. Should this
be implemented as a per-distro or cross-distro solution? If it should
be cross-distro, we would have to push DEP-11 more in Debian to get
the distro-agnostic metadata which would be required to detect the
packages which contain VPN plugins. For a per-distro solution,
hardcoding the available plugins and package names would work too.
Since GNOME already pulls in PackageKit APIs, this would also not add
extra dependencies. (And I'm currently planning to add some simple
logic to tools like apt-get to detect if PackageKit is performing
actions, so they can print meaningful messages to users (and also emit
SuggestDaemonQuit() to packagekitd, so users can perform manual
operations))
Regards,
    Matthias