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FS#64978 - Dependency should not be "optional" between "Discover" and "Packagekit-qt5"

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by metacryptic (metacryptic) - Sunday, 29 December 2019, 10:00 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Sunday, 29 December 2019, 10:37 GMT
Task Type General Gripe
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

Hi, using Arch linux since 1998, and Arch is my distro for years now and I'am very happy with it :)
specially the KISS principle and the Rowling release that is sooo great.

This message to point out a little malfunction (for me).
Using weekly "sudo pacman", on KDE, I try recently "Discover" witch is installed.
But with it, I've no access to the "repository" so I search a while and find that the package "packagekit-qt5" was not installed.
=> on the arch page for discover the dependencies say that packagekit-qt5 is "optional".
=> seems that the dependency should not be "optional" because manage package without it is difficult.
=> well I thought that discover wasn't working before I install packagekit.

What do you think ?

Additional info:
* packagekit-qt5-1.0.1-1-x86_64
* discover 5.17.4-1 (plasma)

Steps to reproduce:
try using discover out of the box : no repository management
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Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Sunday, 29 December 2019, 10:37 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Sunday, 29 December 2019, 10:06 GMT
Optional Deps : packagekit-qt5: to manage packages from Arch Linux repositories

This sounds exactly like an optional dependency. If you want to manage Arch packages from discover, you need packagekit-qt5. If you don't, you don't.
Comment by metacryptic (metacryptic) - Sunday, 29 December 2019, 10:08 GMT
well : why discover is here if no management of arch package ?
Comment by metacryptic (metacryptic) - Sunday, 29 December 2019, 10:11 GMT
I think that it is the presence of Discover that is optional, no ?
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Sunday, 29 December 2019, 10:22 GMT
You could use it for managing flatpak packages.
Comment by metacryptic (metacryptic) - Sunday, 29 December 2019, 10:23 GMT
Discover comes with nothing ! that's the problem for the user
no arch packages and no flatpak !
it's sounds like a car without any wheels :)
For me it should at least having arch package management on a arch distro and flatpak as optional

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