Comments on: QApt 1.0.4 and Muon 1.0.3 released

By: Marcin

Marcin — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 13:38:19 +0000

Good app.
It’d be great to have a Debian Squeeze package as well;)

By: L

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 07:37:11 +0000

Very good soft, I all ready use it on my KUbuntu.

By: Jonathan Thomas

Jonathan Thomas — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 05:15:45 +0000

-When I started with Muon, KPackageKit was in nowhere near as good of a shape as it is now.
-Muon is faster than PackageKit. (It takes 2 seconds to load a list of installed packages, versus almost-instantly with Muon)
-Muon provides functionality that KPackageKit will never have due to the design of PackageKit, such as purging, reinstallation and downgrading support. These are of interest to intermediately advanced users and power users. I can see KPackageKit being a nice way for a program to request the installation of a codec, but for actual package management it falls short.
-KPackageKit is based on PackageKit, which is a fundamentally flawed way of going about package management on Debian systems. For example, PackageKit still fights with/duplicates the standard APT settings for how often to check for updates, and whether or not to automatically install updates. PackageKit just introduces another layer of things that can either go wrong or that don’t mesh quite well with APT since PackageKit was originally designed for RPM-based systems.

By: manolin

manolin — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 09:39:20 +0000

Still I don’t get why to re-do the wheel KPackage kit rocks right now.

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