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

[Sebastian Heinlein]

Am Mittwoch, den 08.04.2009, 05:10 -0700 schrieb Dan Kegel:
> 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."
> 
> Does this mean that packagekit is planning to add
> a build-dep interface so that backends can expose
> that functionality?
> That would be great.

I am not sure about the benefits. Most times people want to build from
source because a software is not available in any repository at all or
not in the wished version.

In both cases using the existing information of already enabled source
repositories would not provide the required build dependencies. Either
they would not be available at all or outdated - once again requiring an
additional check of the user.

The other use case of an user patching a package and so having to
rebuild the package seems to be a bit out of scope for PackageKit.

Cheers,

Sebastian
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