Star 'PackageKit: Sweet Spot in Quest for Universal Package Tools'
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 25th Jun 2008 22:31 UTC, submitted by Rahul
Linux 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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RE: Nice stuff
by Mark Williamson on Thu 26th Jun 2008 16:13 UTC in reply to "Nice stuff"
Mark Williamson
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Well packagekit is indeed cool. And I have great respect for Richard's work. He did this is in a very short time. For example if you want to open a openoffice file and you don't have it installed. Packagekit can ask to install the required program.


You're hitting the nail on the head here: PackageKit has a lot of cool features that aren't mentioned in the article summary. PackageKit has particular benefits and particular problems it tries to solve, so it'll fall short if judged against a different set of goals...

IIRC there are other (available / planned, I don't know) features, such as the ability to give different users different rights with respect to doing software updates, installing new software, removing software, etc... So you can give different users more fine-grained privileges on the system software than the current "Can do anything" / "Can do nothing" setup many distros have!

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