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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2005-08-07
One way to solve that is to simply depend on libs... which most package managers have the ability to do today, so that's not really a big deal...
I'd like to see PackageKit come up with something like OneClickInstall for itself, which I believe is in the process of being done.
This way, you can have PackageKit itself talk directly with the underlying package management suites, and sites can still post single links to download a package.
Lets face it, the package management infrastructure a lot of times is the primary differentiator between distros, take that away, and there is nothing to separate a distro. Maybe PackageKit is a common ground here, and make it so the average user simply doesn't need to care.