<html> <head> <style></style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> You should give Kubuntu a spin. That has Kpackagekit by default and you should feel right at home with it being a .deb distro. In fact im pretty sure Kubuntu dropped Adept for Kpackagekit. Ive also heard a rumour that KDE is dropping Kpackage in favour of Kpackagekit. You also may want to try the aptcc backend. Have fun Jean > To: packagekit@lists.freedesktop.org > From: chealer@gmail.com > Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 11:43:25 -0500 > Subject: [packagekit] What is PackageKit? A general package management suite? - Take 2 > > Hi, > I never used PackageKit. I develop Debian and there is no good package > management GUI. There was discussion about what to do to get a good package > manager for Qt/KDE. Working on KPackageKit was discussed as a possible > replacement for Adept, Synaptic and others. > > But what needs to be clear before that is the intentions of PackageKit. Does > PackageKit intend to be a general-purpose or universal layer above libapt's > layer? > > http://packagekit.org/pk-intro.html contains > > > Use cases for PackageKit exist for the following scenarios: > > > > * Boot time security updates > > * Installing files automatically, e.g. openoffice-clipart > > * Installing new features, e.g. smart-card readers > > * Allowing unprivileged users to install software in a corporate build > > * Opening unknown file formats > > * Removing dependencies for files > > Should I understand that PackageKit wants to address a limited number of use > cases? PackageKit seems more focused on creating simple GUI-s than powerful > GUI-s. Is this just an impression? Basically, could PackageKit be able to > downgrade packages, put packages on hold, manage mixed systems and everything, > or should PackageKit complement more powerful but distribution-specific package > management front-ends? > > There are of course limitations coming from PackageKit being in development. > I'm not asking about the current features, but about where you want to go. > _______________________________________________ > PackageKit mailing list > PackageKit@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/packagekit <hr />MSN NZ Travel <a href='http://travel.msn.co.nz/' target='_new'>Find a way to cure that travel bug</a></body> </html>