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From: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Application name in metadata.xml
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:42:03
Message-Id: 4F38DAB7.3040803@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Application name in metadata.xml by Fabio Erculiani
1 On 2/11/12 2:00 PM, Fabio Erculiani wrote:
2 > I think this is not the first time it's been discussed here, but maybe
3 > I'm wrong.
4 > Other distros associate a more user-friendly package name (application
5 > name) to packages.
6 > Say, they bind libreoffice-writer to "LibreOffice Writer" in package metadata.
7 >
8 > How about expanding metadata.xml (adding to its .dtd) to also support this?
9 > It would be nice to show this info in GUI package managers instead of
10 > the actual, and ugly (for the newbies), CP or CPV.
11 > It would be just a small addition that would make a big diff.
12 >
13 > So?
14
15 Let's do that.
16
17 lu