[packagekit] viability of the current yum backend ?

[Richard Hughes]

On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 08:22 +0100, Tim Lauridsen wrote:
> You are right, it sucks to setup yum each time we do some kind of 
> packagekit backend action, the way to do it is have some kind of 
> persistence yum object loaded one time and let the the helper script 
> call it over DBUS.

Agreed.

> Another way to speed things up is to let some of the commands take
> list of package id, so we don't have to make some many calls.

I think we need to do both of these.

Richard.