KDE/Qt Package Manager (Re: Google Summer of Code 2009: Debian's Shortlist)

[Filipus Klutiero <chealer@gmail.com>]

Obey Arthur Liu wrote:
> * KDE/Qt4 Adept 3.0 Package Manager *
> -------------------------------------
> Student: Mateusz Marek, Mentor: *NEEDS MENTOR, see below.*
>
>     Finish Adept 3.0, a fully integrated package manager for Qt4/KDE4.
> Adept is currently the only viable path to a Debian native package
> manager on KDE that would support modern features such as tags, indexed
> search or good conflict resolving. With Aptitude-gtk still in
> development and only available for GTK+ and (K)PackageKit having
> fundamental problems, Debian needs this project to stay in control of
> its package management on KDE after much neglect in the recent years.
>   
At the risk of repeating myself, what are the fundamental problems in 
(K)PackageKit?

I have no issue with Adept, and I would love to see a good Qt/KDE 
package manager, but if we're to get KPackageKit, I'd like to be sure 
that we won't sponsor yet another APT front-end that won't be used.