Linked by Rahul on Sat 11th Oct 2008 01:53 UTC
PolishLinux has an interview with the KPackageKit developers. PackageKit is a abstraction layer over the different Linux package management tools. It is primarily designed to unify the graphical tools and provide a consistent distribution neutral framework for application developers to install add-ons as well. This project was initiated and continues to be maintained by Red Hat developer Richard Hughes who also wrote the initial GNOME frontend to it, called gpk-application. Multiple backends currently exist and it is the default for Fedora and Foresight Linux already. Other distributions including Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Mandriva, and Gentoo are actively participating in the development of different backends. A KDE interface has been under rapid development recently and just did a 1.0 release last week. This interview provides more details.
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2006-06-07
If we can afford tons of package managers, then why resort to just one abstraction layer? Don't we have enough man-hours? Choice is good, remember? Lets code a whole bunch of those things!
It's not like I'm really calling for that, but let's face it: there's no way to come up with a single solution in the free software world. Any attempt to try to build an abstraction layer is doomed, because another one will be quick to pop up, spoiling the whole idea of having a single interface.