[ug-bosug] Indiana RC2 review

[Ananth Shrinivas]

>> Would it be possible for  us to include  /packagemanager/ in  Belenix  
>> 0.7.1 ?
>> Also the new caiman?
>>
>> cc-ing belenix-discuss as our discussion is gravitating towards that.
>>     
>
>    Not yet since packages will still be SVR4. Though it might be possible
>    if someone can retrofit it for SVR4:
>    http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/Ips_Gui
>   

Had a look at the code and would recommend against any retrofitting 
effort unless you are terribly bored ;-)

The UI is pretty tightly coupled to the package management system (IPS). 
A far more useful effort would be to write an SVR4 or IPS backend for 
KPackage. For example:

RPM backend:
http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdeadmin/kpackage/rpmInterface.cpp?view=markup

DPKG backend:
http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdeadmin/kpackage/debInterface.cpp?view=markup

Ananth