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

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--- Comment #4 from Richard Hughes <richard at hughsie.com>  2009-03-06 14:33:58 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> This should not be approved for Fedora. We have a mechanism for shipping
> repository metadata, and bundling it in packages is not it.  

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.

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