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

[Dan Kegel]

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:12 AM, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.

Did any summer of code students notice this?  Dang, I wish
I had been paying attention at the time, maybe I
could have steered some effort that way.
- Dan