Bug#605906: RFP: Muon Package Management Suite -- Muon is a powerful package manager built on the QApt framework. It boasts a powerful feature set in a usability-minded interface. Targeted for the intermediate to power user range.
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Last summer, Piotr Galiszewski took part in GSOC with a project called
"Aptitude Qt". As he wrote in the Benefits to Debian section, "There is
currently no good Qt-based package manager for Debian. There were Adept some
time ago , but now it has been abandoned project. On the other hand KPackegeKit
is not suitable for debian-based distributions and is not designed for advanced
users. This will give KDE Debian users the same level of package management
experience as Gnome users have" (http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2010
/Aptitude-Qt/PiotrGaliszewski). Unfortunately, it seems the project isn't going
to be released any time soon, and its development status is somewhat difficult
to retrieve.
There's another author who believes that "PackageKit is fundamentally flawed".
He adds that "QApt gets rid of one level of complexity/abstraction code-wise,
meaning that there is less unnecessary machinery that can go wrong, and an
increased level of integration. PackageKit is the jack of all trades, but a
master of none.
Compared to KPackageKit’s app-install offerings, the Muon Installer is a lot
faster at listing and searching through applications since QApt is a much
tighter wrap around APT itself". He is Jonathan Thomas, Kubuntu developer.
In the author's own words, "Muon is a powerful package manager for Debian-based
systems, with a focus on having a sane UI". Not only that, but it has become a
complete suite as of lately, the Muon Package Management Suite, comprising:
- The Muon Package Manager: hardcore package management with a sane GUI.
- The Muon Updater: an update manager.
- The Muon Software Center: an application-centric GUI designed for ease-of-use
(so that anybody can search for and install applications without being bothered
about “packages”).
I feel this is a great opportunity for Debian to finally adopt a solid,
complete, QT-based solution for package management.
* Package name : Muon Package Management Suite
Version : 1.1
Upstream Author : Jonathan Thomas (JontheEchidna) <echidnaman@gmail.com>
* URL : http://jontheechidna.wordpress.com/2010/12/04/muon-is-now-
the-muon-package-management-suite/
* License : GNU GPL v3
Lang: C++
Description : Muon is a powerful package manager built on the QApt
framework. It boasts a powerful feature set in a usability-minded interface.
Targeted for the intermediate to power user range.
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