From kde-core-devel  Tue Nov 05 12:57:28 2013
From: Richard Hughes <hughsient () gmail ! com>
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 12:57:28 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Adopting AppData in KDE?
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On 5 November 2013 12:18, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo@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