Am Freitag, den 01.06.2012, 12:28 +0000 schrieb Matthias Klumpp:
> It's weird that these are the reasons for using aptd, I expected some
> other points ^^

We tried to push PackageKit some years ago but required changes have
been rejected. That is why I started aptdaemon and the project has grown
in the last years and provides a high integration nowadays.

Other benefits of aptdaemon are which come to my mind are:

* written in Python as a lot of other system tools (software-center,
software-properties, language-selector ...) allowing to easily share
code and infrastructure
* test suite
* stable history and maintainership
* terminal/debconf/conffile support
* apport integration
* code of good quality
* plugins

The plugins allow:

* to modify the resolver. E.g. the language-selector plugin installs the
corresponding kde translations if you install a KDE application in an
Unity or GNOME desktop environment
* to install license keys
* to add what provides types (see above)

This is mostly done for maintaining reasons and to avoiding to many hard
dependencies in aptdaemon.

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