[packagekit] Newest Group?

[Richard Hughes]

On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 15:44 +0200, Tim Lauridsen wrote:
> Richard Hughes wrote:
> > In bug https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17837 the user
> > describes a group that contains all the newest packages.
> > 
> > Is there a way a backend could provide a meta-group for the last 50
> > newest added packages? Does any other backend other than apt provide
> > this information?
> > 
> > Richard.
> > 
> > 
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> yum list recent :)

Ahh, right :-)

> I can be done easily in the yum backend.
> 
> may something like
> search-name none 'recent'

"search-group none recent" please. Using a groups provides a way for the
backend to inform the frontend if it supports the feature using a single
bit in the PkGroupEnum.

> could return the latest packages, but it will return both newly added 
> packages and newly updated packages.

Ahh. Can we stick to the newest _added_ packages for "search-group none
recent" please -- I'm not sure we want to add "recent updates" to the
searching interface, but maybe to the update viewer interface. That's an
addition for another day.

Richard.