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

[Ian Stakenvicius <axs@gentoo.org>]

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On 11/02/12 08:27 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:00:38 +0100 Fabio Erculiani
> <lxnay@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
>> I think this is not the first time it's been discussed here, but
>> maybe I'm wrong. Other distros associate a more user-friendly
>> package name (application name) to packages. Say, they bind
>> libreoffice-writer to "LibreOffice Writer" in package metadata.
>> 
>> How about expanding metadata.xml (adding to its .dtd) to also
>> support this? It would be nice to show this info in GUI package
>> managers instead of the actual, and ugly (for the newbies), CP or
>> CPV. It would be just a small addition that would make a big
>> diff.
> 
> I think we already expand the name in DESCRIPTION whenever it is 
> ambiguous.
> 
> Could you please mention some Gentoo examples which would benefit
> from the proposed change?
> 

I don't think it's about being unambiguous, I think it's about
providing a common language title for the package.  I could see this
as being something desirable for a portage gui or to add more
descriptive results to a search engine.

That said, I expect there would need to be a near-portage-wide
adoption of the new entry for this to be useful in either case, and I
don't see that happening...

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