Hi!
Okay, well... Most of that stuff can be implemented trivially. If you check 
http://www.packagekit.org/pk-matrix.html , you can also see that aptcc supports 
EnableRepo() and apt/aptcc don't support InstallSignature() (probably for Apt 
the matrix was not updated there). Regarding InstallSignature() there were some 
issues if I remember that correctly, need to talk to Richard (PK maintainer) 
about that again.
Why does the Apt backend need plugins? What are plugins for? PK provides an 
extremely powerful plugin-api itself nowadays, developed with stuff like the 
Listaller 3rd-party appinstaller in mind, so you can do pretty much anything 
with it, in a distro-agnostic way.
It's weird that these are the reasons for using aptd, I expected some other 
points ^^
FYA, I'm also PackageKit upstream developer, Listaller[1] maintainer and 
participant in the AppStream[2] effort, right now doing a GSoC on the 
Software-Center[3], AppStream and PackageKit to make it run on every 
distribution out there, using PackageKit. We make some adjustments on the new 
PackageKit 0.8.x series there.
So, if there's anything special which you need at Ubuntu, there's a perfect 
time now to ask or it :-) As part of my project, I can implement some other 
stuff too or at least bring it in discussion, if that helps PackageKit 
integration.
You can also write me a mail or catch me on #PackageKit (Freenode, ximion), so 
this bug report doesn't get cluttered.
Kind regards,
    Matthias

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[1]: http://listaller.tenstral.net/
[2]: http://distributions.freedesktop.org/wiki/AppStream
[3]: https://gitorious.org/appstream/software-center

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