PackageKit: new backends and discussed at Ubuntu conference
PackageKit gains more and more attention these days: with Pisi and Smart two new backends have been added and PackageKit was discussed at an Ubuntu conference as a possible default package manager.
Richard Hugehes’ PackageKit - a tool for unified package and software management on Linux regardless of the distribution’s backend - was first introduced around July/August this year. Since that it gained an unbelievable development speed and was improved on an almost daily rhythm.
New Backends
Two weeks ago PackageKit released 0.1 version and marked the API as stable. More and more distributions now realize that PackageKit can indeed become what everyone hoped for and start implementing support for the various backends. The last two added backends add support for Smart and Pardus’ PiSi.
The backend matrix currently looks like this:
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