[Bug 488968] Review Request: fedora-app-install - Fedora application data

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--- Comment #44 from Richard Hughes <rhughes at redhat.com> 2010-09-21 04:19:35 EDT ---
Also, I think it makes a lot of sense to whitelist or blacklist desktop files
-- Ubuntu ask maintainers to submit applications manually so that the list is
small and high quality, and that we can ensure apps are correctly categorized,
and have things like reviews and screenshots. I don't think putting every
application (package with desktop files) shipped in Fedora into an application
installer is a good idea.

i.e. you can't just run a script against pkgdb without some sort of manual
control and merging different 'wads' of data. We probably might want different
data for each spin. I think starting with the distro exploded tree is a good
start, but the KDE spin is going to need different "ratings" on each
application compared to the GNOME spin. And maybe a different definition of
"application" is required for the server spin; that's fine with the app-install
schema I'm suggesting.

Also, this code exists now. It's ready to go. We've got upstream support from
kpackagekit. We've got downstream support from the other distros that are
watching us and certainly Ubuntu and Suse are willing to follow suit.

This is probably very relevant to FESCo.

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