[gentoo-portage-dev] A feature idea ??

["Philippe Lafoucrière" <lafou@wanadoo.fr>]

btw, I was thinking of something : 

maybe we should also think of xml-rpc implementation. Like people in 
freedesktop.org try to harmonize stuff between desktop (esp. KDE & Gnome), 
maybe it's time to propose a standart interface to package managment tools.

A query could be

<search-query>
	<package-name case-sensitive="false">mypackage</package-name>
</search-query>


a server response could be

<search-result>
	<package name="mypackage">
		<version>0.0.1</version>
		<licence>GPL</licence>
		<action>emerge</action>
	</package>
	<package>
		[...]
	</package>
</search-result>

With that, you can write a tool (a new kio ?) which simply display the return 
values, and maybe allow action like emerge / install package, etc.


Maybe xml-rpc should only be used to query the db, since it's may be not 
enough secure to allow managing the package db.

This is just an idea ! 

--
Philippe


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