2015-08-05 0:07 GMT+02:00 Clemens Toennies <starb...@netrunner-os.com>: > On 04.08.2015 18:29, Aleix Pol wrote: >> [...] >> Anyway, I'd like to leave 2 repositories: >> - muon, that will have muon-packagemanager >> - discover, that will have discover and updater. I'd also like to drop >> the Muon part from Discover eventually as well and leave Discover as >> is. >
> I like the idea. > But maybe packagemanager and updater go hand-in-hand, and therefore should > both be called "Muon"? The package-manager manages packages, as in "technical components the distribution is made of", while Discover shows applications/fonts/codecs/..., elements which are - unlike packages - immediately comprehensible to the user. While an updater belonging to the package-manager will of course offer package updates, an updater in Discover will primarily show which apps/codecs/... will be updated. So while they are related, package-manager-updater and Discover-updater have difrerent target audiences and a different featureset. > Doesn't the updater also update individual packages not listed in Discover > because they dont qualify as "Software/Apps"? Jup, but Discover could also do that. E.g. GNOME-Software folds all the package-updates it can't map to an AppStream component into a "System Updates" field, which is clickable to show details about which updates would be applied. I think a similar solution would work in Discover as well. Maybe the design team has some ideas on how to present those non-app updates to the user, if at all. > Discover could be independent though aka the "preferred software center of > choice under Plasma". That's the thing that I am hoping for :) I've heard from Fedora that adopting Muon is a pain and currently doesn't really work, splitting out Discover could help a lot. Cheers, Matthias -- Debian Developer | Freedesktop-Developer I welcome VSRE emails. See http://vsre.info/ _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel