Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=488968 --- Comment #27 from seth vidal <svidal@xxxxxxxxxx> 2009-08-14 11:58:07 EDT --- Putting a package in the distro that will be a giant bag of icons and translations that will need to updated whenever a pkg changes or gets added that adds/removes/changes that set is a bitter pill to swallow, too. It's the WRONG way to do things, furthermore and unlike Suse and Ubuntu we have evidence of it being a bad idea in the form of two pkgs: comps and specspo - both of which used to be packages trundled along in fedora/rhl/rhel. I was talking to James about this problem and generating the metadata at createrepo time isn't terribly difficult. And the users benefit b/c instead of downloading a package containing all this content each time it is updated they can just download the fedora-updates metadata for this content. Making this information be per-repo means that 3rd party and private repos can take advantage of it, too. So, you want this metadata available to yum and PK, great, we can do that - but the info must live in the repository metadata - not in some random pkg in the distro. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-review mailing list Fedora-package-review@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-review