Possible features: filtering and groups

[Grant McWilliams]

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 8:24 AM, Anders F Björklund <afb at algonet.se> wrote:

>
> PackageKit has some backend requirements that
> it could be useful for Smart to implement...
> Typically these would require one implementation
> per package type, but the interface is generic.
>
> The first is "filtering", which is for selecting
> things such as development packages and so on:
>
> http://www.packagekit.org/gtk-doc/introduction-ideas-filters.html
>
> The second is "groups", which is for selecting
> high-level groups that don't need to be in packages:
>
> http://www.packagekit.org/gtk-doc/introduction-group-type.html
>
> These *could* be done in the Smart backend for PK,
> but are probably better off being in Smart itself ?
> They could of course be of value for the regular
> Smart interface as well, not only for PackageKit.
>
> --anders
>
> PS. Previously mentioned similar features are
>    the added errata-flags and update-details
>
>
> I guess it depends on who's writing the code. I'd like to see the new
features go into smartpm and then the backend
stays simple just because I don't currently use PackageKit.

Grant McWilliams
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