ImproveSoftwareManagement
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Launchpad Entry: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/improve-software-management
Created: Date(2005-10-31T22:52:04Z) by Marcin Antczak
Contributors: MarcinAntczak
Packages affected: apt, smartpm, synaptic
Summary
Currently we have few more or less integrated tools that are responsible for packages management - installation, updates etc.
The problem is that they all are based on _package_ as something very important. While usual desktop user doesn't care about 'package' - he cares about features.
So, we should add higer abstraction layer to something that is obvious for power users, and we should provide effective and integrated system that could allow to install/remove/upgrade _features_ not packages.
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Data preservation and migration
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