KPackageKit

[Lukas Appelhans]

Am Freitag 17 Oktober 2008 11:38:18 schrieb Adrien BUSTANY:
> Albert Astals Cid a écrit :
> > A Dijous 16 Octubre 2008, vàreu escriure:
> >> Hi,
> >> I've just commited KPackageKit to kde/playground,
> >> and Aaron Seigo told me that the soft feature freeze is
> >> today, and if i don't get in KPackagekit would be out of
> >> kde 4.2, well i'd like to know what do i have to do
> >> to get it in.
> >> KPackageKit is already quite stable, has just a few
> >> minor bugs, and it lacks only a few features from the
> >> gnome one, but these features can be easily created till
> >> 16th nov the hard feature freeze. (it's only a few
> >> new methods of installing mime types and codecs..)
> >>
> >> Also i have the idea of a little "hack" into kickoff
> >> to permit an option to right click on items and
> >> "Uninstall" it.
> >>
> >> So should i ask for moving it to kde review?
> >> as i said the program already works, has one known
> >> bug that only needs an event loop to fix it, and
> >> those two features..
> >
> > I'm worried by how it could hurt playground/sysadmin/shaman afair it's a
> > similar tool to kpackagekit and choosing one over the other as
> > default "might" hurt the community.
> >
> > Albert
>
> Hi Albert
> I don't know shaman very well, but I think they address different needs
>
> : PackageKit is a completely working piece of software, used by many
>
> distributions. KPackageKit allows KDE user to avoid using the gnome
> interface, and keep the same tool (ie. less work for the distro
> maintainers). I don't think it's real competition to shaman, and even if
> it was, competition can be a good thing for both projects. Vim doesn't
> hurt emacs, and Firefox doesn't hurt Konqueror...
Hey guys!
Well where do u want to move it to at the end? extragear or kdeutils or ...?
At the moment Shaman is idling, sadly, since drf__ and me don't have much 
time. I will definitely go back working on it when I have enough time 
(probably inside the Hard-Feature-Freeze ;))...

Lukas
>
> Cheers
> Adrien
>
> >> Comments,
> >> Daniel.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>       Novos endereços, o Yahoo! que você conhece. Crie um email novo com
> >> a sua cara @ymail.com ou @rocketmail.com.
> >> http://br.new.mail.yahoo.com/addresses