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* Users need to download metadata on package basis on demand and avoid downloading the full packages database; | * Users need to download metadata on package basis on demand and avoid downloading the full packages database; | ||
* After downloading, metadata will be reused as-is, i.e., after checking what packages were already installed, system will download only missed RPMs and install them directly by calling {{Code|rpm -i}} command. | * After downloading, metadata will be reused as-is, i.e., after checking what packages were already installed, system will download only missed RPMs and install them directly by calling {{Code|rpm -i}} command; | ||
* Launching sugar code will be general, i.e., will work as-is on all platform that have PackageKit (literally, on all mainstream GNU/Linux distributions), not only on XO laptops. | |||
=== Downside === | === Downside === | ||
* The system is intended to install only limited number of top-level packages, i.e., packages that have presolved dependency trees on a server. | * The system is intended to install only limited number of top-level packages, i.e., packages that have presolved dependency trees on a server; | ||
* Support dependency trees on server side. | |||
== Sources == | == Sources == | ||