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I'd suggest that you do some investigate to see what's the cause of
performance problems of software center first, and to see if avoiding
them is possible. If it's not possible to avoid the performance
problems, then go for a simplified synaptic.
This could save you quite a lot of time for try and error later.

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Stefano <eco.stefi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> yes, this project for me is only for fun.
> my question is: we need a simplex synaptic or a lighter USC?
>
> Stephen Smally
>
> On 28/07/2011 21:28, Julien Lavergne wrote:
>> Le Thursday 28 July 2011 à 17:29 +0200, Stefano a écrit :
>>> i can say that on my 64 bit system lubuntu software center uses 50 MB
>>> RAM less than ubuntu software center (30 mb). the script will be less
>>> weight than 1 MB, it depends only on gtk and apt.
>>> anyway i think that lubuntu software center should be a kind of more
>>> user-friendly synaptic, and not a totally light-rewritten on ubuntu
>>> software center.
>>
>> The initial plan was to rewrite the front-end of Software-center, to
>> make it simpler and lighter than the current one. Rewrite an entire
>> application is IMO too much of work, and you loose all the "invisible"
>> work done by USC.
>>
>> If you want to work on a separate program, why not, but it needs, at
>> least, to be better than Synaptic, and have real advantages vs USC. You
>> need to think about depends, memory usage, but also UI. There is no
>> sense to do a software-center if the UI is worst than Synaptic. Also,
>> package manager need to be very stable and well tested, it's an
>> important piece of the system.
>>
>> Currently, your program is not ready to replace the 2 previous examples.
>> If you want to continue, be aware that it will be more complex than you
>> think to build it from scratch.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Julien Lavergne
>>
>
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