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Say you have all these different package managers - APT, DNF, Pacman, Zypper, XBPS, etc. - and you want them to work with all these different GUIs - GNOME Software Center, KDE Discover, Pop! Shop, etc.

So what you do is, create a middleware abstraction layer that serves as a unified frontend for all package managers, and as a unified backend for all GUIs.

You'd then write PackageKit backends for each package manager and frontends for each GUI - that is, they'd serve as the backends and frontends to PackageKit with respect to the package managers and GUIs respectively.

graph LR APT <--> PackageKit DNF <--> PackageKit Pacman <--> PackageKit Zypper <--> PackageKit XBPS <--> PackageKit PackageKit <--> GNOME["GNOME Software Center"] PackageKit <--> KDE["KDE Discover"] PackageKit <--> Pop!["Pop! Shop"]
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