On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 7:57 AM, Richard Hughes <hughsient@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It just so happens that app-install does just that. The question isnt should app-install exist. The question is does it interact with our package management system as a source of metadata information in the right way that makes sense for our release process. The point of contention is building a toolset which requires metadata about applications as a package (or set of packages) on a Fedora system. The issue is not the intent of app-install, or how its meant to present information to a user. The issue is the technical specifics of how it interacts with data resources in order to get the application metadata it needs. I've read over the bugzilla thread. I have the same concerns as expressed by Seth and James. But Rolling up application metadata as an rpm to be dropped on the system doesn't seem like a good fit for Fedora. Whereas repomd is designed to deal with metadata in an extensible way. To not use repomd as the metadata information source seems ill-advised. And more to the point because app-install requires our release team to generate the metadata as part of a Fedora release/update compose process... opinion from those quarters about how best to provide the consumable metadata source must be heeded. This isn't a simple case of content rpm like game content or fonts. -jef -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
