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From: Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Per-Category metadata.xml Files
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 12:07:58 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4231FA9E.2090500@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050311162421.404bb1e7@snowdrop>

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Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> Subject pretty much sums it up. I mentioned this in the sys-apps thread
> and no-one said it was a horrid idea... Since I'm asking for DTD
> additions it probably warrants a GLEP. Also, it'll be nice to get a
> quick easy 'Accepted, Implemented' up on the site :) This time, my
> efforts will not be thwarted by Donnie and his lame editor!

I don't see any need to thwart this one, since it depends on GLEP 31
already. =P

> * It would help developers better select a relevant category for their
>   package, rather than dumping everything into ``sys-apps`` and
>   ``app-misc`` as is done currently.

If it's difficult to search/browse, it may not help much.

> A new top level ``<catmetadata>`` element shall be added to the DTD to
> distinguish category metadata elements from the existing ``<pkgmetadata>``
> elements.

Why does it needs to be distinguished?

> The ``<herd>`` and ``<maintainer>`` elements are not generally relevant at
> the category level.

If they are, can they be used?
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-03-11 20:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-11 16:24 [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Per-Category metadata.xml Files Ciaran McCreesh
2005-03-11 17:02 ` [gentoo-dev] " Dan Meltzer
2005-03-11 17:44 ` [gentoo-dev] " Michael Cummings
2005-03-11 17:44   ` Michael Cummings
2005-03-11 20:07 ` Donnie Berkholz [this message]
2005-03-11 23:47   ` Chris Gianelloni
     [not found]   ` <20050311202114.6e2181c3@snowdrop>
2005-03-11 23:54     ` Chris Gianelloni

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