[packagekit] Wishlist for API breaks

[Richard Hughes]

On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 09:42 +0100, Sebastian Heinlein wrote:
> I could think of adding an option to InstallPackages which allows to
> remove conflicting packages. Furthermore GetDepends could also show the
> to be removed packages. 

Yes, I think this would work better.

> Related to this topic: How do you handle updates which require
> additional packages to be installed or removed in yum-land/Fedora? A
> real life example are the packages which contain the blacklisted ssh
> keys after the Debian ssh desaster. The latest ssh packages depend on
> those.

GetDepends(~installed) on the update package_ids

> The SwapPackages method would require more logic and conflicts handling
> on the PackageKit daemon side. I would favor keeping this in the
> backends.

Agree.

Thanks,

Richard.