[packagekit] PackageKit Collections

[John Walicki]

Tim Lauridsen wrote on 09/11/2008 18:15:15 +0200:

> He 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
> 
> ? 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.
> 
> if a backend dont support this then it just dont return any members for 
> the collection group (GROUP_META_PACKAGES).
> 
> Let me know what you all thinks.
> 
> Tim

Hi Tim
I started to detail the use case for a PackageKit API for yum groupinstall 
in this bugzilla ticket:
 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435768 

A special Collections group / metapackages in the gui would be fine.  We 
also want to install the yum groups via a dbus call or an API call.

-- John Walicki
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