Kpackage missing from Kdeadmin - Why, and howto rectify

[Bevan C. Bennett]

Michael Kearey wrote:

> I do have to ask why such a need for kpackage? It is quite nice to look 
> at, but it doesn't appear to do anything more than a small number of 
> commandline + options could acheive.
> 
> ie 'yum list' 'yum list available' 'yum info <somepackage>' 'yum update' 
> 'yum install <somepackage'>

WARNING: I have never used kpackage.
It's my understanding from the long ago OP, however, that the visual 
display of kpackage made it easier to not only view the set of installed 
packages, but to more easily pick out packages and groups of packages 
that could be removed from the system without disrupting the rest of 
your dependencies.

I have not yet seen a GUI package management tool that did this well.