The new gnome-software application

[Ryan Lerch]

On Wed 06 Mar 2013 11:10:44 AM EST, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> drago01 (drago01 at gmail.com) said:
>> On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 10:02 PM, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 5 March 2013 20:02, Ryan Lerch <rlerch at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>> Does this mean that the Application data will be something that Fedora will
>>>> need to host in addition to the data already in the packages?
>>>
>>> Depends if Fedora wants to have application icons and translated
>>> descriptions
>>
>> I still don't understand the whole fuzz about that .. it can't be that
>> hard to ship a bunch of icons and text ...
>
> Mainly that it becomes a pain in the ass to update, what do you do about
> themed icons, and the logical silliness of a package that says:
>
> License: GPL and LGPLv2 and LGPLv2+ and MPL and WTFPL and ASL2.0 and
>   GPLv3 and GPLv3+ and LGPLv3 and X11 and MIT and You'reAPepperToo
>
> Bill

Also, wouldn't a single package that bundles a bunch of icons in it be 
somewhere on the larger side, MB-wise?

cheers,
ryanlerch