[Bug 522239] New: Review Request: qdex - Romanian offline dictionary

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Summary: Review Request: qdex - Romanian offline dictionary

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=522239

Summary: Review Request: qdex - Romanian offline dictionary
           Product: Fedora
           Version: rawhide
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: medium
          Priority: low
         Component: Package Review
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]
         QAContact: [e-mail]
                CC: [e-mail], [e-mail]
   Estimated Hours: 0.0
    Classification: Fedora

Spec URL: http://mapleoin.fedorapeople.org/pkgs/qdex/qdex.spec
SRPM URL: http://mapleoin.fedorapeople.org/pkgs/qdex/qdex-9.09-3.fc11.src.rpm
Description: qDex is an offline dictionary application that uses the database
of the Romanian word definitions created and maintained by Dexonline.ro
volunteers.

Hello!

I have a couple of problems with this package.

1. I've included only very few files from the package. Everything is packed
inside the executable. The Readme file details the installation process so I've
excluded it along with everything else (header files, html doc files which are
included in the binary, qdbm and zlib programs).

2. qdex gets all its definitions from http://dexonline.ro. By default it
downloads them to the current directory the first time it starts and any time
the user asks for it. I had patched it so that it would put the db file (some
20MB) in /var/lib/qdex, but then only root could update the db. So I removed
the patch and assumed that, since users will start qdex from the menu, the
database will always stay/get updates in the current user's home and not have
duplicates that way.
So this is the dillema: leave it the way it is now or patch the program to
remove the "manual update" button and make a separate -data package with the
database, that way the database only gets updated by fedora. However, dexonline
seems to be quite the active project, with more definitions added daily.

I don't know if I should be mentioning this anymore, but I'm not yet in the
packager group although I have found a sponsor.