Contact: Gleb Popov <arrowd@FreeBSD.org>

PackageKit is a small D-Bus daemon program that serves as a backend for "application store" type of apps - most notably Plasma Discover and Gnome Software Center. The latest PackageKit release features a libpkg backend, which means that you can now use PackageKit-enabled programs on FreeBSD to manage software. Plasma Discover is already switched to using PackageKit, so you will get it working out of the box once you update your ports/packages.

If you observe any crashes or bugs in PackageKit please let me know by opening an issue upstream. If you are interested in contributing, there is a lot of work to do too!

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