[packagekit] Adding a new INFO enumerated type?

[Matthias Clasen]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 6:10 AM, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>  I'm erring on the latter, and doing something like this:
>
>  typedef enum {
>         PK_INFO_ENUM_LOCAL = 1 << 0,
>         PK_INFO_ENUM_AVAILABLE = 1 << 1,
>         PK_INFO_ENUM_REMOTE = 1 << 2,
>  ...
>  } PkInfoEnum;
>
>  LOCAL means "on my hard drive, not available on the server"
>  AVAILABLE means "on the server, and on the hard drive"
>  REMOTE means "on the server, and not on the hard drive"
>

Ususally when dealing with bitfields, one expects them to be mutually
exclusive.
It seems bad to have AVAILABLE mean the same as LOCAL|REMOTE and still
reserve a bit for it.

Also, to me 'available locally' doesn't really mean the same as
'installed', intuitively.
I would expect 'available locally' mean: the package is on local
media, I can install it without network. Whereas 'installed' means,
well, that it is installed, which doesn't usually imply being
available for reinstallation without getting the package again from
somewhere.