RFC: On-demand package installation API in kdelibs
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dantti85-dev at yahoo.com.br
Thu Jul 29 18:11:20 BST 2010
> De: Lubos Lunak
> Could you elaborate a bit more on suitability for the task? The only real
> experience with PackageKit I have is by using KUpdateApplet, the openSUSE
> tool for checking and installing updates, and it can be summed up as, to put
> it bluntly, 'PackageKit sucks'. KUpdateApplet hasn't seen any development
> besides maintenance for several last openSUSE releases, yet there are
> regressions every single release (otherwise KUpdateApplet probably wouldn't
> even need the maintenance). IIRC the KUpdateApplet maintainer mentioned that
> PackageKit changes more often than the things it abstracts, which is pathetic
> for an abstraction layer and IMO a showstopper for KDE usage. It also seemed
> pretty over-engineered when I had to help with an urgent KUpdateApplet bugfix
> once. Finally, how widely available is it actually?
I forgot to say how widely available it is:
http://packagekit.org/pk-matrix.html
Another point is that all dialogs that prompt to install something
will be KPackageKit's the application just need to ask these things.
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