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

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--- Comment #13 from James Antill <james.antill at redhat.com>  2009-03-06 18:46:08 EDT ---
> Does this mean this package review will be blocked?

 I certainly hope so, it would be a significant mistake to ship this.

> What about packages like smart and apt-rpm that do things differently to yum 
> and the core distro?

 Noone is saying you can't ship PK. I'm pretty sure noone cares about the
review for the tools that generate/consume the metadata in this package.
 But if smart decided that the md5sums in our repomd.xml was hard to deal with,
so they'd just ship a smart-pkg-data ... then, yeh, I'd say that was a bad idea
and would try and block it.

> Sure, but we search in the locale, and hence we need that data upfront.

 Again, the textual part of the data is _tiny_ ... even more so for updates
(the bit that changes). And I'd be surprised if it changed anywhere near as
often as primary/etc.
 The fact you have tied icons with the textual data in this implementation
doesn't mean you have to continue to do that in another one.

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