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[James Falcon <785570@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Distros now implement their own method of installing packages. There are
no plans to change this.

** Changed in: cloud-init
       Status: Triaged => Won't Fix

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Title:
  Use distro agnostic way of install/update packages

Status in cloud-init:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  CloudConfig.install_packages and CloudConfig.update_package_sources
  could both be made more distro-agnostic by calling PackageKit's pkcon
  program instead of apt-get.  It should be a drop-in replacement like
  so:

  apt-get upgrade -> pkcon upgrade
  apt-get install -> pkcon install
  apt-get update -> pkcon refresh

  AFAICT, pkcon's "-y" option is equivalent to passing "--force-
  confdef", "--force-confold" and "--assume-yes" to the appropriate
  programs.  Passing "-p" to pkcon makes its output suitable for
  logging.  Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be an option to silence
  its output completely, but its stdout could always be dropped.

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