[packagekit] PackageKit Collections.

[Anders F Björklund]

Tim Lauridsen wrote:

> We had a little discussion on irc today, about how to support yum  
> groups
>    and other similar type of groups in other backend types.
>
> The idea was to handle the yum groups as metapackages shown in the gui
> in a special 'Collections' group.
>
> if you select the Collection you will see all yum comps groups as
> metapackages there can be install/removed/updated.
>
> In the api installPackages etc are extended to handle meta packages
>
> ä meta package id is just like an normal package id but with a special
> keyword instead of a repoid. it could be [meta] or ~meta.

For some backends, it is tricky to know which packages are metapackages
without resorting to some heuristic like "doesn't have any files in it"
or "the source package name starts with meta- or task-" or other  
guesses.
But I guess those could just list the metapackages in the regular  
groups ?

--anders