[packagekit] Exposing apt/yum's build-dep feature in packagekit?

[Richard Hughes]

On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 05:10 -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
> http://packagekit.org/pk-faq.html#catalogs
> says that the original use case of package catalogs
> is to install build dependencies.  When asked
> in a comment on
> http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2008/06/05/packagekit-bundles/
> whether this like apt's "apt-get build-dep" feature,
> Richard replied
> "Just that’s the plan. Something like: InstallBuildDepends(debian)=packagekit
> But we need new API for that. That’s 0.3.x timescale."

Right, that's something that got put on the TODO and never escaped back
into the real world.

> Does this mean that packagekit is planning to add
> a build-dep interface so that backends can expose
> that functionality?

I think it makes a lot of sense, but as long as the use cases are
correct. Do we get build deps for a package or a file? Does the package
have to be installed?

If someone is willing to do the work for this feature, I would gladly
review it and commit it into 0.4.x.

Richard.