Brainstorming for UDS-P

[Scott Kitterman]

On Monday, September 26, 2011 03:58:56 PM Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> On vie, 2011-09-23 at 21:56 +0100, Allison Randal wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > While we're all in the final preparations for Oneiric, it's round about
> > that time in the cycle to start thinking about plans for the next cycle.
> > What's on your mind?
> 
> as GNOME upstream is moving to use PackageKit and systemd more and more,
> I think it would be great, since these 2 provide well known DBus
> interfaces, to implement those DBus interfaces in our stack (aptdaemon
> and ¿ubuntu-system-service?)
> 
> cheers

We used packagekit/kpackagekit in Kubuntu for several cycles.  It's really not 
well oriented towards Debian style packaging (Debian released Squeeze with no 
KDE GUI package manager rather than use a packagekit based solution).  We've 
recently switched to a Debian native solution that I think will work better 
for Kubuntu.  RPM and Debian packages are very different in a lot of ways and 
I'm skeptical that something written for RPM is going to be suitable.

Scott K