[packagekit] GNOME PackageKit: requires/dependent packages are semantically reversed

[Richard Hughes]

On 20 August 2013 14:38, Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro at gnome.org> wrote:
> I'd appreciate some feedback from PackageKit developers on a
> gnome-packagekit bug [1].  The "Requires Packages" button is displaying
> the list of packages dependent on the selected package, and the
> "Dependent Packages" button is displaying the list of packages that the
> selected package depends on.  This is semantically the opposite of the
> expected behavior.

I think it depends on the way you look at this. When I started PK, I
added GetDepends to get the list of packages that the package depends
on, and GetRequires to get all the packages that depend on this
package.

Richard.