[packagekit] Packagekit information

[Richard Hughes]

On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 09:12 +0200, Adrien BUSTANY wrote:
> PK is an API to expose the underlying package manager, exposing some
> data in the API doesn't mean it should be exposed in gpk.
> On the other hand, I agree on the fact that we shouldn't clutter the
> API either. But here it seems a reasonnable thing to add.

Right, I agree we should make the interface simple, but make the complex
case possible. I do see time as 100 times more important than speed --
speed just allows us to work out how long something is going to take.

>From a yum backend perspective, does it currently estimate:

* How long the transaction is going to take?
* How long the current package is going to take when
downloading/installing/removing?
* How long depsolving takes?

Richard.