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

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--- Comment #20 from Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com>  2009-03-09 16:26:16 EDT ---
Realistically, the license of the package would be the union of the licenses of
the *icons* in the dependent packages, which is different than the union of the
licenses of the packages themselves (and hopefully shorter). But that can't be
sanely automated.

(The fact that the license of the package ends up being this ludicrous should
give some idea that this isn't really the best way to go about creating and
deploying this...)

(In reply to comment #11)
> I prototyped this, but it wouldn't have scaled well, and there were
> inconsolable differences with debian, e.g versions, icons and translations for
> iceweasel.

How so?

The problem is, essentially, that you want this delivered and updated in an
incrementable format, as the data's going to be (generally) only additive, and
in small chunks. Doing that as packages is pretty wasteful.

Ideally, you'd have a server-side program that does this for you - you ask it
for the differences between what you have, and what is the latest, and it sends
it to you. But since all we have is yum, which is defined to not have any
server components aside from raw transfer of files, any sort of metadata that
wants to be deployed gets shoehorned into either a static metadata chunk, or a
package. Neither of which is really appropriate here.

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