Feature Request: Expose AppStream Categories in libzypp API

[dmartin-hub]

RPM group tags are deprecated, and while libzypp-plugin-appdata installs AppStream metadata for software centers, that data isn’t available through the libzypp API.

Currently, front-ends like Myrlyn and zypper can’t make use of AppStream categories. Exposing them (alongside legacy group tags perhaps) would make it much easier to provide meaningful package categorization.

For example, zypper could potentially gain capabilities like:

zypper search --category multimedia
zypper info --category development

[mlandres]

Only if libsolv is willing (or still able) to parse this into the solv-file cache (as package keyword e.g.). If they are cached, we can offer a search for them.

[dmartin-hub]

Ok, thanks for your guidance. I've made a request upstream to the libsolv folks....

openSUSE/libsolv#613