On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 4:01 PM, James Antill <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 10:57 +0200, drago01 wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Richard Hughes <hughsient@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > On 13 September 2010 21:49, James Antill <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> So Seth spent half a day implementing a proof of concept: >> >> http://skvidal.wordpress.com/2010/08/19/fedora-app-market-proof-of-concept/ >> > >> > Translations? >> > Icons? >> > Offline queries? >> > Co-operating with other distros? >> >> Lets say we ever want to implement this >> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=612628 (or any similar >> feature in another upstream project) >> without a cross distro way to get the application data (icons, names, >> etc. ) it would be a maintenance nightmare. > > Err ... PackageKit is currently the cross distro. way to work with > distro. package managers, nothing outside of that layer should ever know > (or care) where the data is coming from and how it gets updated etc. > For package data now, PackageKit looks in primary-*.sqlite.bz2 in > Fedora and Packages.bz2 in debian. gnome-shell/whatever doesn't know or > care. This should be no different. My main point was to address the "why care about other distros just do it as a fedora only solution". -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
