[packagekit] splitting python into frontend and backend

[Sebastian Heinlein]

Am Dienstag, den 28.10.2008, 12:47 +0000 schrieb Richard Hughes:
> At the moment lib/python contains a mix of files used by the backends,
> and files used by front-end clients.
> 
> I propose making:
> 
> lib/python/*.py               for all the client side stuff
> backends/helpers/python/*.py  for all the backend stuff
> 
> The former would install to the
> existing /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/packagekit, and the second
> to /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/packagekit-backend

You are not allowed to use a hyphen in python module names.

> This also allows us to create backends/helpers/perl for the urpmi
> backend.
> 
> What do you think?

As already said by Tim the backend and frontend parts share some code
(pkgdbus, enums) so I don't think that we have such a clear difference
here.

Cheers,

Sebastian