As explained in a GitHub comment by a Package Maintainer, “Handling system packages via packagekit is just fundamentally incompatible with our high-maintenance rolling release distro, where any update might leave the system in an unbootable or otherwise unusable state if the user does not take care reading pacman’s logs or merging pacnew files before rebooting.”
Anyway, so far all I found there is new optional dependencies.
I rather wonder what happens when manual intervention is needed, like when JDK started being in conflict with JRE.
it is more about arch’s philosy being your system may not boot next update, happens pretty much no where else, except windows, manjaro and sometimes ubuntu
“With Discover, you can manage software from multiple sources, including your operating system’s software repository, Flatpak repos, the Snap store, or even AppImages from store.kde.org.”
Did pacman get packagekit support or are we just talking about flatpaks here?
Arch Wiki has still this warning
Wait, I am supposed to care about .pacnew files?
Anyway, so far all I found there is new optional dependencies.
I rather wonder what happens when manual intervention is needed, like when JDK started being in conflict with JRE.
Octopi is a decent compromise: https://linuxvox.com/blog/octopi-linux/
Yep
So its less about lack of packagekit support in pacman and more about lack of manual intervention features in GUI software managers?
it is more about arch’s philosy being your system may not boot next update, happens pretty much no where else, except windows, manjaro and sometimes ubuntu
My last Fedora version upgrade was a test of my troubleshooting skills, for sure.
It has been working for a while, but it’s not recommended
Thank you for the clarification
It appears using pacman on Arch is the recommended method for the repos, per this issue adding warnings: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/discover/-/merge_requests/829
https://apps.kde.org/discover/ ->
“With Discover, you can manage software from multiple sources, including your operating system’s software repository, Flatpak repos, the Snap store, or even AppImages from store.kde.org.”
So, were talking about flatpaks.