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

[Aaron Walker <ka0ttic@gentoo.org>]

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Chris Gianelloni 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>?
> 

- From a post from ciaranm in the original thread:

| > The ``<herd>`` and ``<maintainer>`` elements are not generally
| > relevant at the category level.
|
| If they are, can they be used?

The DTD says they can be. Or, at least, I see no reason to impose
additional restrictions saying that they can't. I wouldn't consider them
an appropriate substitute for per-package metadata, however.

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Aaron Walker <ka0ttic@gentoo.org>
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