[packagekit] Extending PackageIDs to provide more information

[Matthias Klumpp]

Hi!
On Thu, 25 Nov 2010 17:42:54 +0000, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com>
wrote:
> [...]
> What about "name;version;arch;repo" and
> "name;version;arch;installed(repo)"? Then clients that used to do a
> string compare on the last data element can trivially be changed to
> look for just the prefix. If a package backend doesn't support keeping
> track of where a package came from then we can just emit
> "name;version;arch;installed" like before.
Like it :) I thought it would be better to keep the "usual" syntax, but if
this can be easily implemented we should choose it. (Also the backends
don't have to be changed then)
Thanks!

>> Changing the package-id to something I explained above might not be
>> useful
>> for the PK-user profiles, but it gives some advanced abilities to more
>> professional users while not confusing the normal end-user. It is also
>> required for me to store the origin *and* the state of a package
>> somewhere
>> at the same time.
> 
> I agree, getting the origin is a good feature.
> 
> Richard.