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Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:24:11 +1300
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Application name in metadata.xml
From: Kent Fredric <kentfredric@gmail.com>
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On 13 February 2012 21:35, Markos Chandras <hwoarang@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 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
>
I think it makes sense to also support there being multiple fields of
this kind, because packages like libreoffice bundle multiple
applications in the one.
I'd propose a structure like
<provides>
<application name=3D"Libreoffice Writer" binary=3D"lowriter"
description=3D"A Word processing tool">
</application>
....
</provides>
You could have a proviso somewhere for multiple provides sections and
each section being dependent on some atom match, but I think that's
really over-engineering it.
I thought about putting in stuff to allow for extra metadata for
aliases and such to relate to what people are really looking for ( ie:
people who are still wanting openoffice should get given libreoffice
as a result ) but also smells of over-engineering and nasty messes.
--=20
Kent
perl -e=C2=A0 "print substr( \"edrgmaM=C2=A0 SPA NOcomil.ic\\@tfrken\", \$_=
* 3,
3 ) for ( 9,8,0,7,1,6,5,4,3,2 );"