Static methods of Transaction could return QStringView instead of allocating a new QString about packagekit-qt HOT 1 OPEN

It would break ABI and API. Even as KDE, so near to 6.0, this is too late.

I would suggest just creating the overloads and take the hit on having a slightly cleaner API. We can add a QStringView packageNameView() const method and move on from this issue.

I'm pretty sure we already discussed this with QStringRef, which is almost the same as QStringView, alas here we are again.

Further analysis on whether a PackageKit::PackageId class that caches the positions of the ; could make sense, this can be done later down the road though. It would also bring some type safety which always helps.

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