On 20 March 2010 11:16, Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@gentoo.org> wrote:

> Last year we had a project for PackageKit integration that was never
> integrated into the main tree. I would rather continue that work and
> then any PackageKit GUI could be used with Portage.
>

I agree, it would indeed be nice to have a portage integration in
PackageKit, but given the rather unique way of handling packages in Gentoo,
I would consider PackageKit to be a rather poor choice for a package
manager.
USE flags, inability to resolve circular dependencies properly and of course
the advanced compile configuration that Gentoo offers are hard, if not
impossible to be handled by PackageKit. Which is why I think that, even if
there was a working integration of portage, it would not be used much. The
problem with Gentoo is that it more often than not requires the users to
make a choice instead of just settling for a package and clicking install.

--Patrick Lerner