[packagekit] Adding support for "prepare" in transaction_flags

Daniel Nicoletti dantti12 at gmail.com
Sun Jun 3 11:36:52 PDT 2012


Ok, it's just that for apt it would mean download only...

2012/6/3 Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com>:
> On 3 June 2012 19:05, Daniel Nicoletti <dantti12 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> BTW can you change this enum name to DOWNLOAD_ONLY?
>> I was thinking about this a lot these days because of that
>> systemd link, and now that you added I'd just change the name.
>
> I considered ONLY_DOWNLOAD initially, but I wanted a name that implied
> more than that. PREPARE is meant to mean download and get everything
> ready, so in Zif I could move the downloaded files to a different
> directory, or pack them in a tarball, or even prepare a solv file for
> depsolving. Basically "prepare the transaction for later resuming".
>
> That said, if the consensus is "prepare is a silly name" then I'll change it :)
>
> Richard.
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