packaging: new spec filed idea
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Fri Jan 18 15:51:55 UTC 2008
Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek (jakub.rusinek at gmail.com) said:
> PackageKit in its search results component shows items with
> package-x-generic icon:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Interviews/PackageKit?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=pk-application-search.png
>
> I think that SPEC should have "Icon: " filed which would tell PK and others
> to display that icon from current icon theme.
>
> Then PK instead of generic package icon would should eg Firefox icon, gedit,
> gnome-terminal, etc.
This would require:
a) all the packages put this PNG info in the header
b) all this information make it into the repository data
c) all users would have to download the icons for *all packages* before trying
an update
That last one is the killer.
Bill
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