Fedora 9 Beta, PackageKit and system-config-printer

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 17:22 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 13:15 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Sure, also a plan. At PK build time we still have to get this
> information and ship it in a tarball - else we don't get any data for
> not-yet-installed applications.
> 

why not just request that the various pkg managers be able to retrieve
this information so PK can request it rather than having ANOTHER set of
metadata downloads?

-sv