[packagekit] Feature request

[Richard Hughes]

On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 13:23 +0100, Tim Lauridsen wrote:
> > Check the mailing list archives. I've pointed out several times that the
> > absence of such a feature is a deal-breaker.

Sure. The fact that it's come up early by a user suggests this is more
common than I thought.

> ...calling update-package for each package suck from a performance point of 
> view.

Agreed.

> * create a new update-package-list (find at better name if you like), so 
> we break the existing API, doing the same as above. but make it possible 
> for the frontend to know if this   one is implemented or not. It it is 
> implemented then it could be used in all cases (single update, list of 
> updates, all updates). Something like this could be done for install and 
>   remove too.

See my mail I'm about to send, titled "Things that need fixing"

Richard.