Nicolas Williams wrote:
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).
I wasn't suggesting that it be used for a local index, but for
applications already installed it makes sense to do so for offline
operation.
There are at least three cases I see this being used for:
1) web-based search on pkg.opensolaris.org using this information to
provide richer metadata and search
2) remote search from a client for software not already installed, which
ends up using the server's index
3) local search by a client for software already installed
The richer metadata here is the many different translations that have
already been qa'd by the upstream provider present in the .desktop file.
Cheers,
--
Shawn Walker
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