[packagekit] Anjuta and PackageKit

[Debarshi Ray]

I had earlier read Richard's mail about how he wanted PackageKit to be
able to grab "recommended" dependencies of a package like
plugins/codecs for a particular file format, and came to know that
Totem has worked on such solution recently. I would like Anjuta to
support something similar too.

The problem is that when a user wants to create a new project using
Anjuta he gets some options. eg., Gtk project, Gtkmm project, PyGtk
project, simple C/C++ project, X project, etc.. If the user wants to
start a Gtkmm project and does not have the necessary -devel or -dev
packages, things do not work [1]. I also do not want to take the
extreme stand of having Anjuta have all these libraries and headers in
its dependency chain. That will simply bloat the dependency chain and
waste bandwidth and space.

Right now, I am only the Fedora packager of Anjuta and a few of its
dependencies. So where should I start if I were to work on something
like this. Is there some documentation about how it was done for
Totem? With some basic idea, I can propose a concrete plan to the
Anjuta developers and then take it from there.

Thanks,
Debarshi

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=440087#c14