[packagekit] Questions about Get Depends and Get Requires

[Matthias Clasen]

On Dec 11, 2007 12:12 PM, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Well, it is important to PackageKit in the sense that installing a
> > package that requires
> > libfoo.so.1 _will_ drag in some package that provides libfoo.so.1.
>
> Ohh sure, what I meant to say is that if libfoo.so.1 is required by gimp
> (and libfoo.so.1 is packaged in libfoo2 package) then gimp requires the
> libfoo2 package explicitly.

It sure requires it, but the backends may not report this as an
explict package requires.
Or are you saying that the backends are supposed to convert such implicit
requires into exlicit ones ?