[packagekit] Ipkg backend performance

[Richard Hughes]

On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 16:13 +0000, Thomas Wood wrote:
> Not really, because pk-application therefore takes 0.5 seconds to
> change the current selected package (because it fetches the
> description, or worse, runs get-depends). Any user interaction would
> ideally not take more that 0.1 seconds to give a response.

Point taken.

> But then, maybe that's just a design flaw in the way pk-application
> uses PackageKit?

Yes, gnome-pk should ask for many Description signals by giving more
than one package_id each time. Let me fix the daemon, then I'll fix the
clients :-)

Richard.