[packagekit] Dynamic Groups in Packagekit

[Tim Lauridsen]

Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 08:56 +0200, Tim Lauridsen wrote:
>> 1. the categories/groups used in the installer is different than the
>> one defined in packagekit, that is confusing for the user.
>>
>> 2. the packagekit groups are hardcoded, so the distro has no way to
>> add special groups, important to the distro.
> 
> For 0.3.x we need to keep the current hardcoded groups. When we want to
> add API to support other types of groups, we'll do it in 0.4.x
> 
> Please don't commit anything in 0.3.x (master) if you want to play with
> any new features and apis, please create a branch in packagekit.org git
> and work there.
> 
> I know we are all keen to find a better solution, but for now I think
> it's best we work in a branch and then we can cheery pick later when we
> branch for 0.4.x.
> 
> Richard.
> 
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I have added a 'dynamic-groups' branch to do the basics in the yum backend.

Tim