[packagekit] PackageKit soon to include the QPackageKit library, need advice

[Richard Hughes]

On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 19:08 +0200, Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett wrote:
> Richard Hughes wrote:
> > Upstream the PackageKit-Qt library binding has been merged into the
> > PackageKit scm and will be in the next release tarball. This allows us
> > to keep the libraries in sync and also means QPackageKit gets a lot of
> > the love that PackageKit gets.
> >
> > Love includes things like a .pc file, consistent so versioning, make
> > check integration and also much better integration with upstream.
> >
> > Now we have two libraries (soon to be three), I'm intending to rename:
> >
> > PackageKit-libs  -> PackageKit-libs-glib
> > PackageKit-devel -> PackageKit-glib-devel
> >   
> why not just
> 
> PackageKit-glib-devel PackageKit-glib and PackageKit-qt4 / PackageKit-qt4-devel ?
> 
>  I don't get the -libs suffix.

That's what I got told on the fedora list :-)

> Actually in openSUSE, to follow the shared library policy it should be:
> 
> PackageKit
> libpackagekit4
> libpackagekit4-devel
> libpackagekit4-qt4
> libpackagekit4-qt4-devel

Quite different to what we have in Fedora:

PackageKit
PackageKit-glib
PackageKit-glib-devel
PackageKit-qt
PackageKit-qt-devel

And a few other sub packages of course.

Richard.