On Mon, 5 Jun 2017 11:40:15 -0400 Alec Warner <anta...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Do we really need to store and distribute this data though? Aggregating this kind of data by cross-referencing multiple providers and then trying discovery against debians equivalents of that, while workable, would be likely fragile and unpredictable. If you can determine this list yourself from the existing data, I'd suggest we start with that, and then see how painful it is to do on the fly. I'd expect the round-trip times to resolve such questions would be little expensive, so you'd want a sort of job that does this periodically and creates an index outside of the repository, and then services can query *that* for things like "Can haz an screenshots?" And then, it could be reasonable to then simplify this proposal such that the typical usage of introducing additional data would be to exclusively augment data that can't be discovered by other means. This would solve *both* the problems of "hard to automate" and "too much cruft in the repo", while keeping the hand-edited metadata close to the package definitions.
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