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From: Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Per-Category metadata.xml Files
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 20:11:47
Message-Id: 4231FA9E.2090500@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Per-Category metadata.xml Files by Ciaran McCreesh
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4 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
5 > Subject pretty much sums it up. I mentioned this in the sys-apps thread
6 > and no-one said it was a horrid idea... Since I'm asking for DTD
7 > additions it probably warrants a GLEP. Also, it'll be nice to get a
8 > quick easy 'Accepted, Implemented' up on the site :) This time, my
9 > efforts will not be thwarted by Donnie and his lame editor!
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11 I don't see any need to thwart this one, since it depends on GLEP 31
12 already. =P
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14 > * It would help developers better select a relevant category for their
15 > package, rather than dumping everything into ``sys-apps`` and
16 > ``app-misc`` as is done currently.
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18 If it's difficult to search/browse, it may not help much.
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20 > A new top level ``<catmetadata>`` element shall be added to the DTD to
21 > distinguish category metadata elements from the existing ``<pkgmetadata>``
22 > elements.
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24 Why does it needs to be distinguished?
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26 > The ``<herd>`` and ``<maintainer>`` elements are not generally relevant at
27 > the category level.
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29 If they are, can they be used?
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Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Per-Category metadata.xml Files Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>