Re: KPkgManager

I totally agree on this one. The fact is that it is feasible _and easy_ to 
do it on kpkgmanager. KHTML and kio-apt do most of the job for presenting 
the info, and I can now, using the current architecture, what packages are 
to be changed by the upgrade.

About the uselessness of kio-apt (against apt-cache), the (user) advices I 
had about kio-apt, and my daily use, show me that they prefer to use 
kio-apt. I didn't write it for the sake of writing a ioslave. I wrote it 
because I found it useful.

> As for the browser: the browser implemented in libcapture (ie, the 
> backend part of it) is quite flexible. It provides everything apt-cache
> does,  but installation and "management" is only a click away. 
Same here. Kpkgmanger is kept simple because I want to have it launched 
permanently on the system. Kio-apt provides installation,removal,on-demand 
upgrade, ...

> Stumbled upon 
> package you want? Check a checkbox and you are done. Are you curious
> what changes to system will be done? Select "changed" [*] filter in
> browser and look at packages that will change their state. 
Well, one more time, it's very doable with the frontend/backend 
architecture. I'll definitely have to look at that, but is it really only 
a filter ? You do compute the upgrade, don't you ?

> There are 
> many things browser gives you, even if you don't use it in the
> "straightforward" way. And apt-cache like program or kio is a snap: just
> load libcapture, let it build the filters, get the resulting tree and
> format it as you like.
I never said libcapture was useless. I /know/ that parsing apt-cache output 
was the ugly way of doing it. But the fact is here : it is available and 
works. Now, I totally agree that doing it using libapt-pkg (with 
libcapture) is cleaner.

> Well, frontend for pinning needs a package browser or something
> equivalent first. Setting pins by name is about as comfortable as doing
> it with text editor.
Once more, you HAVE the package browser. Doing package pinning or something 
like that from kio-apt is not too difficult either.
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Sylvain Joyeux