On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 12:34 PM Kevin Fenzi <ke...@scrye.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 08:41:27AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 02:24:53PM +0200, Fabio Valentini wrote: > > > One big downside of this approach would be *absolutely huge* sources > > > (all wallpapers since ancient Fedora), even if split into multiple > > > tarballs. > > > The way it's done today, only wallpapers for *one* fedora release have > > > to be uploaded / downloaded at a time. > > > > Yeah, that's why I was thinking of arbitrarily grouping them into sets > of 10 > > releases. That keeps it from becoming *infinitely huge* over time. > > The other resource issue here is that when you modify the package to add > the new wallpapers, everyone who has any of the old ones installed will > need to pointlessly update them for the version change. > > But since that would only happen at branching once a cycle, perhaps > thats ok. > Crazy idea (sorry no quick fix though)... Is a RPM package really the best delivery method? Sure we have to ship at least one background for installation media, but why do we need to download groups of backgrounds? Someone might just want one. Ideally this would be integrated in the DE, but what about an App that searches a central repository with thumbnails and you can pick the background(s) you like and download the full size version? Thanks, Richard
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