[packagekit] Anjuta and PackageKit

[Tim Lauridsen]

Jan Niklas Hasse wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 15:56 +0100, Jan Niklas Hasse wrote:
>>     
>>> What about using a package catalog? Isn't that a perfect solution
>>> since every distribution could then send a patch upstream to add their
>>> necessary lines to the catalog files. The advantage would be that
>>> people compiling the upstream tarball wouldn't need to patch anjuta
>>> first to get this feature.
>>>       
>> That's another way to do it, although I think it's cleaner using a DBUS
>> API and then you get all the window stuff, and pretty good integration
>> with your application.
>>     
>
> Would it be possible to add a DBUS call for installing collection
> files e.g. InstallCollection?
>
> The problem is that I'm currently developing a smaller application
> which isn't in any distro's repro and therefore catalogs would help me
> a lot.
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InstallPackages("group_id;;;meta") will install a group.
InstallPackages("@groupid") will work too if the backend supports it. 
(the yum one does)

Tim
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