Fedora 9 Beta, PackageKit and system-config-printer

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 13:32 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> seth vidal (skvidal at fedoraproject.org) said: 
> > > 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?
> 
> Isn't this specspo all over again, i.e., bad no matter which way you
> slice it?

yes, but not maintained in an rpm we have to ship around to get updates.

-sv