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

[Sebastian Heinlein]

Am Donnerstag, den 09.04.2009, 08:14 -0700 schrieb Dan Kegel:
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 6:53 AM, Sebastian Heinlein <glatzor at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > I am not sure about the benefits.
> 
> Hey, it's Richard's use case, and he thought it was important
> enough to introduce a whole new feature, package catalogs.
> Think he should remove that feature?

In the case of catalogs the build deps would be stored in the catalog
file and not in the repository data AFAIK. That is a big difference.

> Perhaps he simply has developers more firmly in mind as users than you do?

You are talking about package maintainers or developer of upstream projects?

The native get build-dep feature is perhaps mostly used by package maintainers
and as a starting point for people who want to compile something not yet
available - but would have to install additional dependencies.

Cheers,

Sebastian
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