[packagekit] Cross-distro package mapping and matching?

[Mounir Lamouri]

On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 3:44 AM, Sebastian Pipping<webmaster at hartwork.org> wrote:
> Git is "dev-util/git" in Gentoo but "git-core" in Debian.
> Is there any project/library/tool that does package name mapping?
> Is such a service part of or planned for PackageKit?
>
>
> I am working on extending Smolt [1] (basic hardware tracker, think
> "what soundcard do I run") into a software tracker (think "what
> software do I have installed") suitable for the needs of Gentoo under
> the umbrella of Google Summer of Code 2009.  This goal will extend to
> cross-distro software tracking in the long run, maybe even the
> short run.

Hi Sebastian,

Are you aware I'm working on a portage backend for packagkit for my
summer of code ?
I'm surprised you talked about PackageKit and Gentoo : did you write
your own backend ? or are you just talking theoricaly ?

Mounir