RFD: Using "Type=MetaApplication" for package managers and application stores

[Richard Hughes]

On 7 August 2011 00:45, Jacob Edwards <j.johan.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
> It turns out this approach is problematic.

Yup, we discussed this at the app installer summit a few months ago.
All our reports are here:
http://distributions.freedesktop.org/wiki/AppStream

I'd be interested to know if the appstream metadata (and shared OCS
server) is good enough for what you want to do.

Richard.