Fedora 9 Beta, PackageKit and system-config-printer

[Richard Hughes]

On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 16:47 -0500, Michael E Brown wrote:
> Firmware-tools uses this *extensively*. I would like to port
> firmware-tools to use package-kit, but can't really, without this
> function. (As opposed to maintaining instructions for apt, yum, smart,
> rug, et al. currently.)

I've merged in a WhatProvides() abstract method into packagekit a few
minutes ago. I'll add an example as pk-install-depends now, and also
make pkcon fall back if there was no package match with pkcon.

This means pkcon install $random_provide should work as you wish.

Richard.