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Taking A Look At Gnome Packagekit. A Software Centre And Update Manager All In One. - YouTube (youtu.be)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Yet another…

[–] PrefersAwkward 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is that not what KDE Discover and Gnome Software Center do? Or is this a new one for Gnome?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I'm pretty sure the video is just badly misnamed. PackageKit is an abstraction layer for interacting with native packages in a cross-distro manner. It's used by both Discover and Software Center. It is developed by Red Hat, but not as a part of GNOME.