[packagekit] What is PackageKit? A general package management suite? - Take 2

[Jean Hubbard]

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 at lists.freedesktop.org
> From: chealer at 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.
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