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Project Summary
PackageKit is a D-Bus abstraction layer that allows the session user to manage packages in a secure way using a cross-distro, cross-architecture API.
In a Nutshell, PackageKit...
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a very large development team
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took an estimated 22 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in July, 2007
ending with its most recent commit 17 days ago
GNU General Public License v2.0 or later
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