The new gnome-software application

Wed Mar 6 21:48:01 UTC 2013

On 03/06/2013 12:22 PM, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On 6 March 2013 16:28, Ryan Lerch <rlerch at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Also, wouldn't a single package that bundles a bunch of icons in it be
>> somewhere on the larger side, MB-wise?
> 
> 3.9M	f18.db
> 13M	f18-icons.tar.gz
> 
> The .db contains all the names and translations, categories and that
> kind of thing. bzipped its 1.2M but takes a second to decompress.

Can you help me understand why packaging them all into one package is a
preferable solution to having a web service provide them?

~m