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[Sebastian Heinlein <glatzor@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Am Dienstag, den 09.07.2013, 21:23 +0200 schrieb Matthias Klumpp:
> 2013/7/9 Sebastian Heinlein <devel@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> So, can someone maybe summarize what the Ubuntu plans currently are?
> Switching to PackageKit, getting rid of the parts of Aptd which are
> covered in PK? Because otherwise, creating a Click backend for PK
> doesn't make that much sense, if Aptd would have to reimplement it
> anyway... (Then, using Aptd directly would be the faster-to-implement
> choice)

AFAIK the focus is currently on prototyping and evaluation.

> It might make sense to implement the Click backend in C/C++
> rather than in Python. The native backends get much nicer error
> reporting, and the past has shown that they are also faster (might not
> apply to the click case, and might not be the primary goal, but
> still...).

Right. If the backend's only job is too call the click installer command
using a native backend makes much more sense.