Linux and application installing

[Richard Hughes]

On 17 September 2010 13:36, Arthur Pemberton <pemboa at gmail.com> wrote:
> Wouldn't that require the tool to download every package just to get
> the embedded information.

Yes, that's what my generator tool does. Of course, it only downloads
the packages that contain .desktop files (which we can tell from the
metadata) otherwise that would take more than ages.

Richard.