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

[Markos Chandras <hwoarang@gentoo.org>]

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On 02/13/2012 12:42 AM, Thomas Sachau wrote:
> Alexandre Rostovtsev schrieb:
>> Users know a package's "natural name", not the occasionally
>> cryptic ebuild name, and certainly not the category. If I want to
>> install a game called "Neverwinter Nights", it may not be
>> immediately apparent to me that I should emerge something called
>> "games-rpg/nwn".
>> 
>> Adding the natural name to metadata would allow users to more
>> easily find the packages they need via packages.gentoo.org and
>> tools like eix.
>> 
>> -Alexandre
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> If people have to look into a file to find a name for a package 
> different from the package name, they can also directly look into
> the ebuild or, even more simple, just use the search ability of
> portage or other tools, which are able to search the DESCRIPTION.
> 
> So if package name really differs from the ebuild name, put it into
> the description and you can find the package with portage or tools
> like..... eix ;-)
> 
> If you really, for whatever reasons, dont want to place it into 
> DESCRIPTION, metadata.xml already has longdescription. If you place
> the full natural name of the package into that field together with
> an extended description, i am pretty sure, that noone will
> complain.
> 
> So from my point of view, i currently dont see any need for a
> special field in metadata.xml to specify the natural name of a
> package.
> 
This field wont be useful to users but to GUI applications that want
to show a pretty name instead of a weird PN. It would be fully
optional but it would have a standard syntax. You can't use
<longdesription> for that to extract the real package name because
each developer use this tag in a different way. Same for description.
The proposed tag would have a single strict syntax, that is a single
string just for the real package name so it would be easily
extractable. And of course it would be fully optional. After all, it
is just an addition in metadata.dtd

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Regards,
Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2
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