[packagekit] WhatProvides

[Klaus Kaempf]

* Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> [Mar 17. 2008 21:08]:
> On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 19:58 +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > But at the same time that not a problem for PackageKit to deal with,
> > but for distribution developers (and users of their "provides"
> > scripts) to figure out.
> 
> Bastien, do you think that:
> gstreamer0.10(decoder-audio/mpeg)(layer=(int)1)()(64bit) should be a
> standard or do you think this should be done per-distro?
> 
> Do you think we could make this a formal standard for backends? Too high
> effort/benefit ration?

It should be a standard for applications (resp. distributions) when
requesting support for a specific codec.
For PackageKit and its backends, its just an arbitrary string
PackageKit shouldn't care about.

Klaus
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