[packagekit] Simpler search

[Richard Hughes]

On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 10:51 +0100, Tim Lauridsen wrote:
> The only way to do live search in a sane way is to have the complete 
> list of packageid in mem, in the frontend.

Totally agree.

> i have made an 'get-packages <filter>' method in the yum backend to play 
> with.

OOooooh. I've wanted to add something that for a while now.

> # time sudo ./get-packages.py none | wc -l
> 13535

After the release I'll add the API for this, and then we can add this
into the UI. Good man.

Richard.

p.s. Could you also add this to yum2 please? Thanks.