[packagekit] Regarding rollbacks

[Rahul Sundaram]

Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett wrote:
> Richard Hughes wrote:
>> I do agree there needs to be some unification of the history here --
>> except the low level tool is missing three pieces of important data:
>>
>> 1. What tool invoked the method
>> 2. What user is doing the action
>> 3. _Why_ the action is being done
>>
>> For instance, it's easy to examine the yum log and find out that
>> gstreamer-plugins-good was installed yesterday, but you have to use
>> PackageKit log viewer to discover that it was installed by "totem" by
>> user "ania".
> 
> That is the yum case :-)
> 
> but libzypp already saves that information. It would be cool if we could
> expose the history natively. 

RPM 4.6 does that and I suspect libzypp is duplicating it to some 
extend. There needs to be more discussions on what should stay at RPM 
level vs what is in the dep solver.  It would avoid saving duplicate 
work if things could be done within RPM itself.

Rahul