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Install applications in the background and show a notification icon instead of a progress window by default. Separate the frontend and backend for package administration completely and communicate using dbus.
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The frontends for package administration, e.g. gnome-app-install, synaptic or update-manager, only do the selection part and send the data of packages to be removed or installed via dbus to a system installation service. This allows to use different package management system for the same frontends.

Summary

Separate the frontend and backend for package administration completely and communicate using dbus.

Rationale

The frontends for package administration, e.g. gnome-app-install, synaptic or update-manager, only do the selection part and send the data of packages to be removed or installed via dbus to a system installation service. This allows to use different package management system for the same frontends.

http://tw.apinc.org/weblog/2006/05/26#summer-of-code-acceptance https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/synaptic/+bug/17138

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