On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 14:23 -0400, Colin Walters wrote: [snip]
No support for conflicts[1], removing packages[2], installing multiple packages at a time[3] (if the user clicks multiple, just queue them up),
This is a fundamentally broken assumption. Multiple packages are required because packages can and do depend on other packages. Even things like python-paramiko, etc.
All that said -- it'd be trivial to split out the search bit of pirut and have that run stand-alone. But that doesn't get rid of the need to do transactions, depsolving, etc.
Jeremy