"With the Ubuntu Software Store, Canonical is hoping to
unify all of the different package management needs into a single,
unified interface. While this will not be achieved in Ubuntu 9.10,
Canonical is hoping that all of the capabilities of the
update-manager, Synaptic, the computer janitor application, gdebi,
and other package management-related programs will be merged into
Ubuntu Software Store. When this has occurred, it will be easier on
the new end-user having to just deal with a single program to
provide all of this functionality."