Adopting AppData in KDE?

[Richard Hughes]

On 5 November 2013 12:18, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
> why do you need to know this? can AppStream not call external tools to do the
> installation?

The way AppStream is generated in Fedora is we:

* Take the binary rpm file
* Explode it somewhere (without installing it)
* Parse the contents
* Write a file of metadata and a tarfile of icons

Ricahrd