Hi Ghee,

On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 11:42 +0000, Ghee Teo wrote:
> While this is an interesting suggestion, I think it is not a practical 
> solution for the following reasons:
> - the description text while available is in the open but is it is not 
> readily referable by a URL, they are often capture in source rpm or some 
> compressed metadata.
> - doing this on the fly will be a big performance hit on the GUI
> - In system that have not access to the internet, as you said render 
> this useless.
> - These information is pretty static and unlikely to change once they 
> are in place.

A 'description' action would fix all of the above, though perhaps that's
overkill for what we need.

        cheers,
                        tim

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