[packagekit] GetRequires and not-installed packages

[Tim Lauridsen]

Richard Hughes wrote:
> Marcin has pointed out an ambiguity in the spec in
> http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14838.
> 
> The problem is that GetRequires (what packages depend on this one) could
> be useful to find out what installed packages depend on this one (the
> common case) but also for what available software in a repo depends on
> this one.
> 
> Now, we have three options:
> 
> * Add a filter parameter to the method so we can differentiate between
> installed and available

+1

> * Mandate that GetRequires will only operate on installed packages
> * filter this in the client tools.
> 
> The third is least appealing for reasons I've pointed out in the
> bugzilla, but I wanted your guys opinions on this. Is reverse searching
> for deps in repos useful?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Richard.
> 

Tim