Kapti, an experimentation on package installation/removal, UI (Tres Finocchiaro)

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Sunday, June 06, 2010 2:03:18 am Patrick Dickey wrote:
> On 6/5/2010 6:00 AM, kubuntu-devel-request at lists.ubuntu.com wrote:
> > Re: Kapti, an experimentation on package installation/removal
> > 
> >       UI (Tres Finocchiaro)
> 
> I guess my take on the subject is why don't we try to incorporate the
> Ubuntu package manager into Kubuntu?  On older versions of Kubuntu,
> KPackageKit wouldn't work properly for me (searching would produce no
> results), so I would have to use Synaptic (which would find anything
> that I searched for).
> 
> I realize that KPackageKit comes from KDE, so it will be installed.
> But, we should work on a KDE version of the Software Center (or install
> the Ubuntu Software Center by default).  This is, of course, assuming
> that the Ubuntu Software Center will allow users to install either
> Gnome- or KDE- based packages.

It will allow that, but I think there'd be problems with the large amount of 
space including GTK and GNOME libraries would take on the CD.

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Mackenzie Morgan
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