RFS for PackageKit package

[Julian Andres Klode]

On So, 2010-10-17 at 16:12 +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 15:56:24 +0200, Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org>
> wrote:
> > Le dimanche 17 octobre 2010 à 14:25 +0200, Matthias Klumpp a écrit :
> >> Hello!
> >> I am looking for a sponsor for my packagekit package.
> > 
> > We already have sessioninstaller, and this is the implementation that
> > applications should use in Debian when they need the PK interface.
> Having PK in the repos allows applications to link against the PackageKit
> libraries, it also makes using KPackageKit and GNOME-PackageKit possible in
> Debian. Kubuntu already uses PackageKit with success, and they do have
> SessionInstaller and PackageKit in the repos.
> Software is not always developed for Debian, and PK is present on all
> distros (except Debian).
> All stuff some Debian devs complained about a year ago were fixed by the
> PK development team, so there's also no blockig reason anymore.
> Having PK in the repos does not block the work of SessionInstaller, AFAIK
> they also can be installed parallel.

You can have either packagekit-gnome or sessioninstaller, but not both,
as they both provide the same session service at
org.freedesktop.PackageKit. You can install console-only PackageKit in
combination with sessioninstaller, though.
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Julian Andres Klode  - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member

See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.