Is a Unified Qt-based Package manager possible?

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Tue May 16 23:08:16 UTC 2006


void wrote:

> I'd like to hear your opinion about the topic described in the
> subject. Is there a possibility to create a package manager which
> could be used in multiple distributions and behave similarly in each
> one, but preserve the package structure of that specific distribution?
> Multiple distributions have light-weight graphical package managers
> based on Qt/KDE libraries (and one of them sure is Kubuntu). 

kpackage _was_ exactly that.  For some reason, Ubuntu has abandoned it, but
I still use it enough for it to be on my "most frequently used" list.  It
supports DPKG & APT (separately), RPM, BSD, KISS (? I don't even have a
clue what that is), Slackware & Gentoo.  

Forget kynaptic and adept, and lets support kpackage.
-- 
derek





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