Re: [gentoo-dev] Registering media types for Gentoo files

[Michał Górny]

On Tue, 2022-09-06 at 10:40 +0100, Roy Bamford wrote:
> On 2022.09.06 10:33, Michał Górny wrote:
> > Hi, everyone.
> >
> > Since we've been standardizing some things in Gentoo lately, I was
> > thinking we could try to get some media types registered with IANA.
> >
> > Particularly, I'm thinking of registering our Manifest format [1] as:
> >
> >   text/vnd.gentoo.manifest
> >
> > and our new binary package container format [2] as:
> >
> >   application/vnd.gentoo.gpkg
> >
> > However, the process is non-trivial and I'm not sure if the latter
> > really qualifies, given we're only specifying the container and not
> > the complete data format.  To be honest, the specs are quite huge
> > and I'd really appreciate some help grasping all of this.
> >
> > Perhaps ebuilds and eclasses would also qualify for registration.
> >
> > WDYT?
> >
> > [1] https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0074.html
> > [2] https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0078.html
> >
> > --
> > Best regards,
> > Michał Górny
> >
> >
> >
>
> Michał,
>
> > However, the process is non-trivial ...
> That's a down side.
>
> What are the benefits to Gentoo?
>

Fame and glory?  I think we might be the second (after Debian) distro to
have officially registered MIME types.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny