The new gnome-software application

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Wed Mar 6 16:10:44 UTC 2013


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


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