[packagekit] Changing the Package signal to include a type

[Richard Hughes]

On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 14:57 +0100, Klaus Kaempf wrote:
> Filtering on package name does not match the intention of 'suse
> patches'.
> 'suse patches' try to relate a problem and its fix to actual package
> updates.

Sure, but there's no reason basename has to give the actual srpm name -
for instance in the zypp backend you could return all the packages when
the filter is "none" but if "basename" is specified only return a list
of meta-packages (i.e. suse patches) that the user can browse in a GUI
tool.

Richard.