[packagekit] WhatProvides

[Richard Hughes]

On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 20:17 +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> It's definitely a per-distro (or at least per packaging backend)
> problem. I'm pretty sure some backends would allow special knowledge of
> the gstreamer provides, and would be able to do something cleaner. Some
> distributions don't have multilib support, etc.

Sure, thanks.

> We don't have the same library provides across packaging backends, I
> don't see why codec provides should be any different.

Indeed.

> IMO, this is too much work considering the benefits.

Thanks for your insight, appreciated.

Richard.