[packagekit] ALPM Backend

[Richard Hughes]

On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 15:16 +0200, Georg Grabler wrote:
> Well - actually, "using" pacman in this case isn't possible. Nothing
> of the pacman code is exportet as a library.

Sure.

> The only thing which I can propose is, that the "pacman" backend
> parses the pacman configuration (as already the GUI Shaman did in it's
> first version - also for this, there was no other solution), using
> ALPM functions for the rest of the backend (as the current ALPM
> backend does already).

This sounds like the best plan.

> So if you're fine with that, I'd rather start out writing a config
> parser for the pacman configuration than using hardcoded repositories.

+1

> I think this could push the backend for alpm a step further, giving
> the possibility to implement the missing backend functions using ALPM.

Cool. Sounds great to me. Thanks.

Richard.