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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Status On KPackage
From:       Kelly <lightsolphoenix () gmail ! com>
Date:       2007-03-20 5:06:19
Message-ID: 200703200106.20259.lightsolphoenix () gmail ! com
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Ironically, your second paragraph mimicked exactly what I thought would be 
required for KPackage to continue to have a reason to exist.

But I think you're right.  By definition, no package manager can support 
ports/portage, and other than that most of the others are supported by Smart 
at least.  Which would ultimately make an official KDE package manager 
redundant; it'd probably be better to convert KPackage into a Qt frontend to 
Smart itself, or trash it altogether.

On Monday, March 19, 2007 8:42 pm Gary L. Greene, Jr. wrote:
> On Monday 19 March 2007 23:00, Kelly wrote:
> > I'm curious, what's the status on KPackage?  Going to be updated?  In the
> > trash?
>
> Likely, dropped....
>
> Seriously, the app has a number of issues holding up as being a good tool
> to continue. First, it has only rudimentary support for the various package
> managers; It has no understanding of yum, urpmi, smart or other package
> manager tools. Second the UI needs a serious amount of attention, as the
> interface feels _very_ 1990s (no surprise as the app was first introduced
> back in the KDE 1.x series).
>
> If KDE is to have a package manager as part of the distribution, then it
> should be able to work on ALL platforms that KDE has full support for, and
> do it well. This is the main reason that I would rather see it dropped in
> favor of letting vendors use their own tools.
>
> Trust me, I don't say that lightly, as I would much rather see KDE be the
> full system environment under graphical. However I see it as an aspect that
> is far better served by the vendors at this point.


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