From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BA1D1158094 for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2022 11:20:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7645CE0986; Tue, 6 Sep 2022 11:20:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (woodpecker.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1E314E096B for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2022 11:20:17 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <067e6b7997432f14a82d05b89f306469512d3b28.camel@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Registering media types for Gentoo files From: =?UTF-8?Q?Micha=C5=82_G=C3=B3rny?= To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2022 13:20:13 +0200 In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Gentoo Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Evolution 3.44.4 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Archives-Salt: 5d237727-7fac-4dfe-839e-09114279be0e X-Archives-Hash: 887e50aa2f5da1dd5b19dcd30353eb1d On Tue, 2022-09-06 at 10:40 +0100, Roy Bamford wrote: > On 2022.09.06 10:33, Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny wrote: > > Hi, everyone. > >=20 > > Since we've been standardizing some things in Gentoo lately, I was > > thinking we could try to get some media types registered with IANA. > >=20 > > Particularly, I'm thinking of registering our Manifest format [1] as: > >=20 > > text/vnd.gentoo.manifest > >=20 > > and our new binary package container format [2] as: > >=20 > > application/vnd.gentoo.gpkg > >=20 > > However, the process is non-trivial and I'm not sure if the latter > > really qualifies, given we're only specifying the container and not > > the complete data format. To be honest, the specs are quite huge > > and I'd really appreciate some help grasping all of this. > >=20 > > Perhaps ebuilds and eclasses would also qualify for registration. > >=20 > > WDYT? > >=20 > > [1] https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0074.html > > [2] https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0078.html > >=20 > > --=20 > > Best regards, > > Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny > >=20 > >=20 > >=20 >=20 > Micha=C5=82, >=20 > > However, the process is non-trivial ...=20 > That's a down side. >=20 > What are the benefits to Gentoo? >=20 Fame and glory? I think we might be the second (after Debian) distro to have officially registered MIME types. --=20 Best regards, Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny