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From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 34 (category metadata) implemented
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 08:27:17
Message-Id: 200503240926.50056.pauldv@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 34 (category metadata) implemented by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Wednesday 23 March 2005 15:56, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 09:51:59 -0500 Chris Gianelloni
3 >
4 > <wolf31o2@g.o> wrote:
5 > | On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 02:46 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
6 > | > Package maintainers, feel free to update the descriptions if you can
7 > | > come up with something better. It's fairly likely you'll be able to
8 > | > add in a couple more helpful sentences, since I never go anywhere
9 > | > near some categories. If you're fluent in non-English, by all means
10 > | > add in other languages, but only do this if you're actually sure
11 > | > you're going to spell things properly -- this is why I stuck to
12 > | > English only...
13 > |
14 > | Do these metadata files support <herd> and <maintainer>?
15 >
16 > Hrm, according to the DTD, no. You'll need to persuade pauldv on that
17 > one if you want to use them...
18
19 If you give me a good reason I'll be persuaded. If however you look back at
20 the herds proposal there is no linkage between categories and herds. To add
21 this would possibly introduce that. I also want to have some kind of meaning
22 added on putting herd and maintainer in category metadata. Especially for
23 maintainer it would seem strange that someone could maintain all packages in
24 a category.
25
26 Paul
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29 Paul de Vrieze
30 Gentoo Developer
31 Mail: pauldv@g.o
32 Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net

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Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 34 (category metadata) implemented Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>