[packagekit] compressing the files data

[Richard Hughes]

On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 18:42 +0200, Tim Lauridsen wrote:
> Richard Hughes wrote: 
> > On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 12:27 -0400, James Bowes wrote:
> >   
> > > On 10/26/07, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >     
> > > > >From GetDetails we get a list of files in the package; this is a lot of
> > > > data:
> > > >       
> > > What about making a get-filelist and not returning the files in the
> > > description? Assuming we don't need the files for most uses.
> > >     
> > 
> > Yes, I was thinking of that - it's yet another method, but does solve
> > the problem. We can get the file list when the user clicks the file tab.
> > What do people think about this?
> > 
> > Richard.
> > 
> > 
> >   
> +1
> 
> Sound fine to me.

Any volunteers? This isn't going to be trivial as it will need changes
across lots of files, and in gnome-packagekit.

I'm away for the weekend, but I'll try to grab my mail when I can.

Richard.