[packagekit] WhatProvides

[Klaus Kaempf]

* Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> [Mar 17. 2008 18:37]:
> 
> Now, I think to be properly abstract, I envisage a method like:
> 
> WhatProvides(PkProvidesEnum provide_type, const char *data)
> 
> where PkProvidesEnum would be ALL, MODALIAS, CODEC, GENERAL or other
> things that we think up.

Whats the purpose of having an enum if its semantics could be encoded
in 'data' ?

> I guess we could standardize the format for MODALIAS and CODEC although
> i don't think that's particularly important as we don't enforce the
> names of packages either.

Correct. Leave this standardization to the package maintainers.
PackageKit would push this by requiring 'standardized' capabilities
like e.g. 'modalias(...)' through the WhatProvides API.

Klaus
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