On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 3:01 AM, FlorianFesti <ffe...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 09/16/2010 09:05 PM, Colin Walters wrote: >> (I don't have a strong opinion on whether the data format is RPM or >> repodata myself; maybe just a slight preference for the latter; the >> most important thing in my mind is to come to rough consensus and >> working code, and actually ship something) > It is probably easier to add that information directly to the packages. > Rpmbuild could inspect *.desktop file and produce Provides: from it or > add a new tag. That way there'd be a distribution independent format and > way to retrieve this data and the Fedora infrastructure doesn't have to > deal with the generation on its own. > > Can someone please elaborate a bit what pieces of information are really > needed? The .desktop files as a whole?
Wouldn't that require the tool to download every package just to get the embedded information. -- Fedora 13 (www.pembo13.com) -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
