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

Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=488968 --- Comment #4 from Richard Hughes <richard(a)hughsie.com&gt; 2009-03-06 14:33:58 EDT --- (In reply to comment #2) This isn't repository meta data nor is it package metadata - this is application data. This is nothing like comps or specspo at all. This is also for functionality (the client side database) that is shared between distributions, and other distributions don't share our repomd or the same packaging tools. Please guys, don't just protest against this because it's not doing things the yum way. Putting icons and all translations in the yum repomd is not suitable unless you want to download large amounts of extra metadata every time a few packages change, and would add a large chunks of functionality to yum. I've got no intention of adding huge amounts of code to yum, as it already difficult to interface with yum using PackageKit and I really don't think yum should understand the concept of applications, rather than packages. yum is meant to be a package manager, not an application manager. I've been updating hal-info quite a bit in the last few years, and this has worked well for this sort of data. We cannot do this repo-side and use the mechanism in a cross-distro way. I've talked in depth with suse, ubuntu and foresight developers about this, and using yum in this way is not the right thing to do. Richard. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.