Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Application name in metadata.xml

[Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>]

>>>>> On Sun, 12 Feb 2012, Paweł Hajdan, wrote:

> On 2/11/12 2:00 PM, Fabio Erculiani wrote:
>> Other distros associate a more user-friendly package name
>> (application name) to packages.
>> Say, they bind libreoffice-writer to "LibreOffice Writer" in
>> package metadata.

[Replying to a random message in this thread.]

Why do you think that writing the package name in mixed case and with
embedded white space would be more "user friendly"?

>> How about expanding metadata.xml (adding to its .dtd) to also
>> support this?

I still don't see what this would buy us. So far we have a unique
identifier (namely ${CATEGORY}/${PN}) for our packages. Introducing
another name will water this down and cause confusion for users, in
the first place.

So, can you point out what are the advantages of your proposal?
Are they large enough to outweigh the confusion arising?

> I'm fine with this, but please make it unobtrusive (i.e. don't
> require everyone to change their metadata.xml now).

I'm not convinced that such info should be added to metadata at all.

Ulrich