On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 10:52:41PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: > The primary point of interest to take away from all of this is the usage > of taking advantage of the GNOME .desktop files delivered in a package > to provide richer metadata for package search and information display. > > Since we can retrieve individual package files instead of downloading a > whole package, a client could retrieve this information (if present) and > display richer metadata or add it for indexing. > > Thoughts?
Why have a local index? The user will need to go download the pkgs he/she finds that way, so we might as well make the search facility an infrastructure one (not necessarily co-located with the actual pkg repositories). _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
