Fedora 9 Beta, PackageKit and system-config-printer

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 17:15 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 13:09 -0400, James Antill wrote:
> >  As much as I like PK for solving some problems, do we really need to
> > have the Fedora build system depend on it? I can't imagine that writing
> > the above directly using yum APIs would be that much work, no?
> 
> Ohh, you don't need to use PK on koji. If koji could spit out a
> directory of .desktop files after they have been built then I can just
> slurp them in at PK build time and give everything pretty icons and
> localized descriptions, and even prompt to install the right thing for
> an unknown extension.
> 
> In my dream fantasy world there would be a directory:
> 
> fedoraproject.org/random/offline-desktop/gnome-screensaver/gnome-screensaver.desktop
> 
> I could just slurp in this directory and then do some magic stuff.

Doing this in build-time would make more sense. It would probably be a
better idea to take the code from pk-import-desktop and graft it into
the build process, maybe even inside the rpmbuild process.

-sv