• ToDo

To do

This page is for listing proposed changes that are not yet structured enough to put onto RoadMap.

Package system

• Upgrades: There is not yet an easy way to upgrade a package. Upgrades are important for getting security fixes. It would be useful to save the old state: the selected package, and whatever has been written into write_layer.

• Package sets: Would want to manage installed packages as a group.
  • Pet names are supposed to be global. Only one installed package should have a given pet name.

  • Managing .desktop files. Currently these are never removed.

  • Would want to perform upgrades in bulk, especially when multiple packages come from the same source.

• There is no direct equivalent of apt-get install FOO. Currently you have to specify the package you want and a destination. Should provide a default destination.

• There should be an easier way of invoking installed packages from the command line. Currently you have to use plash-pkg-launch with a package install directory.

• plash-pkg-update-avail should take an explicit filename argument instead of reading sources.list from the current directory. It could also take sources.list lines on the command line. It could take a GPG public key as an argument.