GNOME-PackageKit packaging

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Sun Dec 5 17:03:53 UTC 2010


Le dimanche 05 décembre 2010 à 17:40 +0100, Matthias Klumpp a écrit : 
> * 4 applications using the library:
>               A. Package Manage   => low-level PM like Synaptic, using a
> Debian-specific package-manager lib

As long as you need this one (and I think we all agree that it is badly
needed), you need a Debian-specific way to do privileged operations,
with the full APT interface in mind, not just a stripped-down version.

>               B. Update Manager   => combination of -manager, -notifier,
> can be based on PackageKit
>               C. Software Center  => application-oriented version of A,
> can use PK
>               D. Software Sources => manages sources.list, can also use PK
> 
> (*) => Libpackagetool could use the PackageKit-daemon if possible,
> otherwise, for example for searching the cache, it could use APT directly.
> 
> Would provide exactly the same stuff be reusing existing and well-tested
> code. Why not improve PackageKit?

Because it just serves the purpose of adding an extra, useless layer.
Once you have a powerful API that can do more and serve as a backend for
a package manager, it can also do the simple things.

What we need is a generic way to encapsulate all operations available in
libapt in a D-Bus interface, not to build a new extension to PackageKit
every time someone recalls a feature APT has and yum has not.

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