"ext James Sparenberg" <james at linuxrebel.org> writes: > I've noticed that this package seems to be nothing more than some kind of > alert that updates exist. The "magic:sys" entry is not a package at all. It is just a hackish way to represent the "Update my whole system" operation in the UI. Apt-get for example doesn't know about a package called "magic:sys". The "apt-worker" backend for the Application Manager recognizes this fake package by name and then does a full system update instead of trying to install a real package. Lots of things are unpolished about the "magic:sys" package. The sizes are all wrong, for example (except the download size), and if you have broken packages or unsatisfied dependencies on your system, things get a bit weird in the UI. On the other hand, I use it daily to keep my Sardine installation up-to-date, and it works great for that.
