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From: Aaron Walker <ka0ttic@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 34 (category metadata) implemented
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 14:59:12
Message-Id: 4241843C.3050806@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 34 (category metadata) implemented by Chris Gianelloni
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4 Chris Gianelloni wrote:
5 > On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 02:46 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
6 >
7 >>Package maintainers, feel free to update the descriptions if you can
8 >>come up with something better. It's fairly likely you'll be able to add
9 >>in a couple more helpful sentences, since I never go anywhere near some
10 >>categories. If you're fluent in non-English, by all means add in other
11 >>languages, but only do this if you're actually sure you're going to
12 >>spell things properly -- this is why I stuck to English only...
13 >
14 >
15 > Do these metadata files support <herd> and <maintainer>?
16 >
17
18 - From a post from ciaranm in the original thread:
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20 | > The ``<herd>`` and ``<maintainer>`` elements are not generally
21 | > relevant at the category level.
22 |
23 | If they are, can they be used?
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25 The DTD says they can be. Or, at least, I see no reason to impose
26 additional restrictions saying that they can't. I wouldn't consider them
27 an appropriate substitute for per-package metadata, however.
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34 Aaron Walker <ka0ttic@g.o>
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