[gentoo-dev] Missing <name> inside metadata.xmls

Hi everyone!

Today I’ve made a simple try to see how many packages miss the <name></name> pattern inside metadata.xml and the result was rather unexpected. Without counting the category/metadata.xml and maintainer-needed there are 1060 metadata.xml that does not contain it.
You can easily verify that using the following command: egrep -RiL “<name>|<!-- maintainer-needed -->” ./*/*/metadata.xml
I know it’s not actually imperative to add it but actually strongly suggested to maintain things consistent. What do you think about that? Is something You find important to stick?

Best regards,

Marco Scardovi (scardracs)