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The Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, Suse, and Mageia developers attended a conference last week in which they tried to find a way to "make software (un) installation less cumbersome". Remember our discussion about the art of installing programs on Linux? |
I wonder why all the distros duplicate their work. Sometimes they do it justifiably; others, it seems that they choose different paths only for the sake of doing something themselves. We should fix this. Collaboration between the different distros is not the most common today, and that is probably something we need to fix. To do so, a very important cultural change is necessary.
- Vincent Untz
Apparently, the development of a unified method for software installation is underway, which will use the Ubuntu Software Center as its graphical interface. Richard Hughes says that the Ubuntu Software Center will be ported to PackageKit very soon (in just a few weeks) and describes the project's progress on his blog .
Here is the video presenting the project summary:
Source: WebUpd8