[packagekit] some things that are not quite right in 0.1.3

[Matthias Clasen]

On Nov 19, 2007 2:20 AM, Tim Lauridsen <tim.lauridsen at googlemail.com> wrote:

>
>  Currently all packages will be in GROUP_OTHER if no comps data is available
> in the repo.
>  It is a difficult case,  because there is can be comps.xml with group
> infomation for each repo, but it is not an error if one repo is missing a
> comps.xml, so it is a bad idea to raise an error.
>  The backend should not return any groups other than GROUP_OTHER, if no
> comps metadata exist.
>  I think the problem is that we have hardcoded the available groups in the
> pk-backend-yum.c, maybe it is an idea to add a get-groups.py helper to
> return the available groups in the current active repo setup.
>

Yeah, that would probably be better. Another idea is to show the
number of packages in each group in
the group list maybe even split up into installed/available. But maybe
that information is not available
until I actually select the group ?