[packagekit] APT2 Status Update

[Richard Hughes]

On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 00:57 +0100, Sebastian Heinlein wrote:
> I have uploaded some changes to the apt dbus backend: It now supports
> cache refreshing, updating the system, installing and removing packages.

Excellent!

> Furthermore I introduced a detail search that makes use of Enrico Zini's
> apt-xapian-index. The search time is now really very impressive.

Have you got any benchmarks? Does the IPC now play a large part in the
delay?

> In the
> near future I plan to add the debtags reinjection code of Enrico which
> allows to search for familiar search results that don't have any
> substring matches, e.g. a search for "image editing" would return the
> "image manipulation" programme gimp.

Okay, but see my other mail - we need to specify what "dumber" backends
should do.

Richard.