On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 01:43:57AM +0100, Armin K. wrote:
On 03/26/2014 01:26 AM, Karol Babioch wrote:
Hi,
now that GNOME 3.12 has been released and probably will hit the repos in the next couple of days/weeks, I'm wondering what the current status of "Software" is [1]? This is an application similar to an app store in the mobile world.
I couldn't find it in the repos, and I wouldn't expect it to even work without some patching, because obviously it would have to be integrated into the packet management system. The only reference I could find in regards to Arch Linux was a forum thread from last year [2], which basically ended up in a mess without any real answers.
On the other hand I may have missed it, because GNOME is really good in using generic terms like "Software" and "Web" to name their applications, which are not great to search for :'(.
I'm not interested in another flame war about GNOME, when it hits the repos and things like that. I just want to know whether this particular application is available/works and if not what the technical hurdles would be to make it work and whether it is feasible to get it working in the near term. Arguably users of Arch Linux are expected to know how to use use the command line (including pacman) and I'm fine with that, but I wouldn't mind to be able to browse an app store, just for the fun of it ;).
Best regards, Karol Babioch
[1]: https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/Apps/Software [2]: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=170223
Not that I am much aware of the state of this, but from what I've seen, the package requires packagekit. Archlinux packagekit package is fairly old and I doubt that it can be used by gnome-software. There was a thread on one of archlinux mailing lists regarding packagekit not so long ago, but even after that thread, packagekit still remained at version 0.7 which was released 2 years ago, while 0.8 (maybe even 0.9) is the latest available version.
-- Note: My last name is not Krejzi.
Note on packagekit: The guys at Antergos started the port of the alpm backend to 0.8 but it seems it's a lot more work than first anticipated. Currently I don't have sufficient time to digg into this myself to get our alpm backend on par with the latest packagekit again. -- Ike