On 29/04/17 20:23:58 CEST, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > The apt-config-auto-update package enables automatic periodic cache > updates on systems that *do not* use PackageKit. For systems where > PackageKit is installed, the PK frontend uses PackageKit to request > update information.
About the package cache, isn't it in common between apt and PackageKit based tools? If I issue an "apt update" I see that discover sees the updated cache. If so, I don't see why not use apt-config-auto-update, it provides a useful feature that I think many users expect by default. > The software-properties-kde application allows configuring the update > interval (does nothing here...) but also allows people to edit the > software sources installed on the system. It's basically a GUI editor > for /etc/apt/sources.list. And that is the reason why Discover depends > on it. But plasma-discover already has this feature, I can edit my sources.list with it and without software-properties-kde being installed. > Granted, software-properties-kde has quite some flaws [...] > Regardless of that, having it brings enough benefit to the users that > it is included here. [...] > The periodic updates / automatic updates function in software-properties-kde > is broken if you use Discover, but its other functions warrant its inclusion > still. What benefits if I may ask? The sources.list can be edited already in plasma-discover without s-p-kde, the periodic updates are broken if I use discover as you say, and what remains is the possibility to choose if automatically install security updates (but I suppose unattended-upgrades does exactly that) or download all the updates in background or just notify about it. Thank you. Regards Francesco