Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 34 (category metadata) implemented

[Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@gentoo.org>]

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On Wednesday 23 March 2005 15:56, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 09:51:59 -0500 Chris Gianelloni
>
> <wolf31o2@gentoo.org> wrote:
> | On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 02:46 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> | > Package maintainers, feel free to update the descriptions if you can
> | > come up with something better. It's fairly likely you'll be able to
> | > add in a couple more helpful sentences, since I never go anywhere
> | > near some categories. If you're fluent in non-English, by all means
> | > add in other languages, but only do this if you're actually sure
> | > you're going to spell things properly -- this is why I stuck to
> | > English only...
> |
> | Do these metadata files support <herd> and <maintainer>?
>
> Hrm, according to the DTD, no. You'll need to persuade pauldv on that
> one if you want to use them...

If you give me a good reason I'll be persuaded. If however you look back at 
the herds proposal there is no linkage between categories and herds. To add 
this would possibly introduce that. I also want to have some kind of meaning 
added on putting herd and maintainer in category metadata. Especially for 
maintainer it would seem strange that someone could maintain all packages in 
a category.

Paul

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Paul de Vrieze
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