[packagekit] PackageKitExtra - package abstraction

[Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek]

Richard Hughes pisze:
> On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 10:37 +0100, Patryk Zawadzki wrote:
>> On Feb 18, 2008 6:59 PM, Richard Hughes<hughsient at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 12:09 +0100, Sebastian Heinlein wrote:
>>>> To achive this all .desktop files are extracted from the archive and
>>>> stored in a cache with some extra information. Currently all desktop
>>>> files are shiped in the app-install-data package so that the cache can
>>>> be rebuild afterwards again.
>> That's a horrible horrible hack and would be a huge pain to maintain
>> in a consistent and up-to-date way for any distro with daily updates
>> (think "* unstable" or always-in-development distros).
>
> Well yes, but we need to get the metadata from somewhere - and none of
> the repo structures give us this sort of localised and icon information.
> Worst case scenario, we just display the box icon and en_US text.
>

My fault, I suggested "saner icons" ^^ .