From: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Application name in metadata.xml
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:41:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F38DAB7.3040803@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN3AtvrEXA=MLhdFms38fk4dKFMcN5K+QJuVP-ivTwyHLGRoow@mail.gmail.com>
On 2/11/12 2:00 PM, Fabio Erculiani 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.
>
> So?
Let's do that.
lu
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-13 9:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-11 13:00 [gentoo-dev] RFC: Application name in metadata.xml Fabio Erculiani
2012-02-11 13:27 ` Michał Górny
2012-02-11 14:03 ` Fabio Erculiani
2012-02-12 0:02 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2012-02-12 8:01 ` Fabian Groffen
2012-02-12 15:43 ` "Paweł Hajdan, Jr."
2012-02-12 19:37 ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-02-12 21:14 ` Alexandre Rostovtsev
2012-02-12 21:22 ` Michał Górny
2012-02-12 21:34 ` Alexandre Rostovtsev
2012-02-12 21:43 ` James Broadhead
2012-02-13 0:42 ` Thomas Sachau
2012-02-13 8:35 ` Markos Chandras
2012-02-13 13:12 ` Fabio Erculiani
2012-02-13 17:24 ` Kent Fredric
2012-02-13 9:41 ` Luca Barbato [this message]
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