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On Wednesday 23 March 2005 15:56, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 09:51:59 -0500 Chris Gianelloni |
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> <wolf31o2@g.o> wrote: |
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> | On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 02:46 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> | > Package maintainers, feel free to update the descriptions if you can |
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> | > come up with something better. It's fairly likely you'll be able to |
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> | > add in a couple more helpful sentences, since I never go anywhere |
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> | > near some categories. If you're fluent in non-English, by all means |
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> | > add in other languages, but only do this if you're actually sure |
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> | > you're going to spell things properly -- this is why I stuck to |
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> | > English only... |
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> | Do these metadata files support <herd> and <maintainer>? |
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> Hrm, according to the DTD, no. You'll need to persuade pauldv on that |
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> one if you want to use them... |
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If you give me a good reason I'll be persuaded. If however you look back at |
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the herds proposal there is no linkage between categories and herds. To add |
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this would possibly introduce that. I also want to have some kind of meaning |
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added on putting herd and maintainer in category metadata. Especially for |
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maintainer it would seem strange that someone could maintain all packages in |
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a category. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |