Am Samstag, 27. Oktober 2012, 12:25:23 schrieb Cristian Morales Vega:
On 27 October 2012 10:58, Martin Schlander
wrote: Fredag den 26. oktober 2012 18:37:36 skrev Cristian Morales Vega:
**OPENSUSE (KDE Team)** already decided to drop the zypp backend and use PackageKit: http://gitorious.org/opensuse/kupdateapplet/commit/fd3e44863e3518cc3df8e8 500 07d07602cb70161 And for 11.4 **OPENSUSE (KDE Team)** decide to drop it completely and leave only kpackagekit.
Tgoettlicher is not the KDE team. Kupdateapplet was maintained by YaST/zypp
It's a member. Or so says the wiki http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:KDE_team.
guys, YaST/zypp guys decided for mysterious reasons to prefer the PK backend over the zypp-backend, and subsquently YaST/zypp guys decided to drop kupdateapplet.
Reasons stop being "mysterious" once you ask what the reasons are. From your explanations and the wiki content this is what I am understanding:
- One openSUSE KDE member decided to drop direct zypp support from the update applet against the will of the rest of the team - Nobody decided to ask him why - Nobody else from the openSUSE KDE team decided to start maintaining an update applet that is 99% KDE, ZYpp-agnostic, open source code with just a few calls to the zypper and zypp-refresh commands through wrappers. - Given the impossibility of asking a question to one of your own members, or maintaining a piece of open source KDE code that has kept working without maintainership for nearly two years, you were left with no other option but use KPackagekit/Apper as update applet.
Ignore the wiki, let's suppose Thomas is not a openSUSE KDE team member... It still makes no sense.
I can't really believe that story!! It makes a lot more sense to think that the openSUSE KDE Team just decided to start using PackageKit. And if they/you want to use it for the updater, it only makes sense that they/you also want to use it for local RPM installations.
No apper (or kpackagekit back then) was only used because kupdateapplet was dropped, if I remember correctly.
Or, why a **one line fix** has been a "long standing bug"? Again, it makes more sense to think that nobody has changed it during this "long" time because it wasn't considered a bug and instead the openSUSE KDE team actually wanted it to be handled by Apper. Or is the team in such a need of manpower/new members?
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