Project: libmuon package install for 3rd party applications

[Jonathan Riddell]

On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 03:33:41AM +0100, Aleix Pol wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 8:34 PM, Jonathan Riddell <jr at jriddell.org> wrote:
> > Aleix et al: what do you think of this?
> >
> > https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2015/Ideas#Project:_libmuon_package_install_for_3rd_party_applications
> >
> > adapting muon so its library can be used by external apps to install
> > packages?
> 
> Like I told you, I think that what you're aiming to do here really is
> packagekit. If you think about it, it will never be as simple as you'd
> like it to be anyway. Designing API, jobs. You only want to install?
> Or also delete?
> 
> As an alternative, we can work on the "muon-discover  --application
> orca" use-case. It will spawn a full application, but at least the
> user will be knowing what he's installing. Maybe even creating a
> muon-cli, but I don't really think we want to expose API from muon.

ok I tidied it up to remove muon and suggest packagekit
 https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2015/Ideas#Project:_package_install_for_3rd_party_applications

> PS: A good GSoC would be to make sure that Appstream can finally be
> adopted properly in Kubuntu

While this would be lovely it would probably require a lot of
coordination in debian, launchpad and ubuntu. It feels like a full
time job :(

Jonathan