On 7 September 2010 15:23, James Antill <james(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
Are you having any discussions about applications like postfix, or
is
version 2 going to be just GUI stuff?
Postfix is not an application. Applications have translated desktop
files and icons.
I assume you have a plan for making this repodata, but I
couldn't find
it, is there a URL?
This isn't repodata, it's a separate data package. You /could/ push
the icons.tar.gz and desktop sqlite database as repodata, although
it's not going to change for the duration of each release[1] so seems
like a waste of resources. From an rpm point of view, it's easier to
deal with the install and removal of data as rpm scriptlets
system-wide than by pushing this into yum itself (and other distros
could not use this code). We also want this data installed by default,
and not fetched / updated when the user tries to install something for
the first time. That would ruin the user experience.
Richard.
[1] The data only needs to be refreshed if popular packages get split,
or many translations get added.