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From: Fabio Erculiani <lxnay@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Application name in metadata.xml
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:01:37
Message-Id: CAN3AtvrEXA=MLhdFms38fk4dKFMcN5K+QJuVP-ivTwyHLGRoow@mail.gmail.com
1 I think this is not the first time it's been discussed here, but maybe
2 I'm wrong.
3 Other distros associate a more user-friendly package name (application
4 name) to packages.
5 Say, they bind libreoffice-writer to "LibreOffice Writer" in package metadata.
6
7 How about expanding metadata.xml (adding to its .dtd) to also support this?
8 It would be nice to show this info in GUI package managers instead of
9 the actual, and ugly (for the newbies), CP or CPV.
10 It would be just a small addition that would make a big diff.
11
12 So?
13 --
14 Fabio Erculiani

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