Il giorno dom, 27/11/2011 alle 03.08 -0500, Aleksandar Kurtakov ha scritto: > [...] > > > IIRC and think about the same package - this was a package containing data > that is part of repos metadata, > without any idea how it would be for kept uptodate with latest packages. From > time to time updates is not an option obviously. > You have a noble goal to improve user experience but please whatever you do, > don't do anything that will require every packager > to do something - it won't work and I'm pretty sure that many maintainers > would happily give you commit rights to their packages > but nothing more (I'm surely one of them).
I know, and I understand why the yum developers rejected the package approach, back in 2009. That's why I'm proposing to do the dirty work of generating and including app-stream.xml and app-icons.tar.gz in the repodata. > This shouldn't be discouraging you - history has proven that once you have > something cool people will happily work on it. > For the missing icons for non installed software - having something like the > filelist db in the repo containing only the icons from > .desktop files might work though the size of it might be a concern. But if > you do that on the repos side I'm pretty sure that adding > support for it to gpk/apper would be an easy task. I really hope so. Giovanni
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