On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 08:12:10PM +0100, Balló György wrote:
Sad news. You did a great job on maintaining PackageKit's alpm backend in the recent years. Thanks for your work, and good luck!
If nobody step up porting the alpm backend to PackageKit version 0.8 (huge work!), I'll drop the following packages from the [community] repository in the next days: - apper - gnome-settings-daemon-updates - gnome-packagekit - packagekit - packagekit-qt2 - python2-packagekit
-- György Balló Trusted User
Why the rush to drop these packages ? Currently it is working, when none of the TU/DEV are willing/able to continue the development of the alpm backend for packagekit and at some point things break, then it would be a good time to drop those packages from community. -- Ike