[Bug 488968] Review Request: fedora-app-install - Fedora application data

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--- Comment #27 from seth vidal <svidal at redhat.com>  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.

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