Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 25th Jun 2008 22:31 UTC, submitted by Rahul
Earlier this week, we reported on the Berlin Packaging API, an effort to consolidate the various different packaging formats and managers in the Linux world. Many compared this new effort to PackageKit, and today Linux.com is running an article detailing what PackageKit exactly is, with a few quotes from the project's lead developer, Richard Hughes.
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Porting an existing gui is a mess in many cases. Packagekit.org has a presentation detailing the problems. Also there is nothing stopping people from running the PackageKit GUI and having their native package manager gui installed in parallel for more advanced tasks. That is the approach used by many distributions. Note that ebuilds are getting to be a supported backend via a Google SoC project
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/userrel/soc/
Fedora and Foresight Linux already include PackageKit by default and nearly all the mainstream distribution are going to do it by the next version.