[packagekit] Caching of repository metadata (esp. Yum)

[Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett]

Sebastian Heinlein wrote:
> This is not your fault. It is a valid feature request.
>
> Not knowing how long a PackageKit transaction will take, makes it quite
> uncomfortable to write applications. A small Resolve call could take
> seconds, minutes or hours.
>
> I would really like to see a separation of cache manipulating and
> read-only transactions. Is it possible to process multiple transactions
> concurrently with the spawn or native backend?
>   
That wont help you if the backend does it own lock for all applications.

Duncan