PackageKit calls for help

[Anders F Björklund]

Patryk Zawadzki wrote:

> There was a discussion about a new GUI for smart. Something similar 
> here:
>
> PackageKit (http://hughsient.livejournal.com/34440.html) is a GNOME
> frontend for various package managing backends. Would anyone care to
> create a smart backend for PkgKit?

The screenscraping approach is certainly doable, I did something like
that for the implementation of the Smart PM panel plugin for Xfce...

http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/panel-plugins/xfce4-smartpm-plugin

Reading through the PackageKit guidelines for back-end stdout/stderr,
maybe some of that could be factored out to a standard library even.

--anders