specspo and PackageKit

[Bill Nottingham]

seth vidal (skvidal at fedoraproject.org) said: 
> On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 17:20 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > I'm just trying to comprehend how we'd generate this information for
> > the repodata in any sort of sane manner, and failing miserably. You'd
> > need to have every run of createrepo check out some source controlled
> > translation directory, and munge it with intltool (aiyeeeeeeeee) into
> > a separate translated XML file.
> 
> No, you don't need to do it on every run of createrepo. You can do it
> after the fact, if you want and then hit the repo with modifyrepo to add
> the translation data. You could even have a separate
> repomd-translation.xml which lists out the translation files available
> and their checksums, etc.
> 
> The whole point is specspo isn't useful on its own anymore. I understand
> things we may do from here will take some work but specspo just takes up
> space w/o providing any functionality at all afaict.

You're specifically architecting a repodata-based solution to replace
just what it does now. How is that 'w/o providing any functionality at
all'?

Bill