Comment 52 for bug 645300

(In reply to comment #50)
> I think shoving the icons into the repodata and distributing them in a single
> bundle has the same problems as distributing them in a single RPM.

Thanks, that's why I asked - I didn't know if we were going to be better off or not.

> Just thinking out loud here, but how about a situation where the icon is only
> shown when the user clicks on an item from a list to get more information.
> Then, that icon (and only that icon) is downloaded from something like the
> pkgdb if the network is up, and a category placeholder icon is used if it is
> not.

I'm a little worried about the cost on the pkgdb servers/proxies - but it's not necessarily insurmountable.