On Tuesday, September 7, 2010, 10:42:54 AM, Richard wrote:
On 7 September 2010 15:23, James Antill
<james(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
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.
Richard,
To minimize the installed footprint on minimal systems such as ARM,
would it not make sense to separate the information by translation,
so that only the installed translations occupy space on disk and in
the sqlite database?
Al