There's already some pkgbuilds for it. You can see the forum post for
more information. (It's in contributions)

On 10/22/07, Travis Willard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 10:56:54 -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote
> > On 10/22/07, gan lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Is there any plan to port pacman to support PackageKit? Just be curious.
> >
> > Erm, I don't believe Dan and I have ever heard of PackageKit. If you
> > would LIKE this to happen, I'd suggest the following:
> >
> > a) Join the pacman-dev mailing list.
> > b) Tell us why this is a good idea.
> > c) Give us some pros/cons
> > d) Patches are always welcome.
>
> As a point of note, NOTHING should need to be done to pacman - there is no
> 'porting' pacman to support PackageKit, quite the opposite actually.  Somebody
> needs to take the time to write a PackageKit backend that supports libalpm.
>
> I originally had interest in this, but personal time constraints didn't allow
> me, and I have since lost interest.  Someone else, however, has started a
> libalpm backend which is included in PackageKit's git repo - this is 'pacman'
> support.  Take a look at it and see what you can contribute, would be my 
> suggestion.
>
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> Travis
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