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From: Kent Fredric <kentfredric@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: New irc data field in layman's repositories.xml file format
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 07:53:27
Message-Id: CAATnKFAdyDvt8EAC2=r4wtRBBYFL4OgKedr6hiAW4-qydhKjZw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: New irc data field in layman's repositories.xml file format by Brian Dolbec
1 On 11 March 2012 22:09, Brian Dolbec <dolsen@g.o> wrote:
2 >
3 > eg:
4 >
5 >    <irc>Channel #gentoo-guis on the freenode network</irc>
6 > or
7 >    <irc>#gentoo-guis on the freenode IRC network, irc://irc.gentoo.org/gentoo-guis</irc>
8 >
9
10 Though a freeform text field is probably better for humans, I'd
11 suggest having more explicit data available as an option, ie:
12
13 <irc network="irc.freenode.org" channel="#gentoo-guis">Channel
14 #gentoo-guis on the freenode network</irc>
15
16 This way you can put more behaviour on the display side in whatever UA
17 is processing the XML, for example, you could easily add support for
18 some GUI portage tool to add an "IRC" button on relevant packages
19 being displayed, that opens the IRC channel listed in the users chosen
20 IRC client ( as configured in the GUI's preferences ).
21
22
23 --
24 Kent
25
26 perl -e  "print substr( \"edrgmaM  SPA NOcomil.ic\\@tfrken\", \$_ * 3,
27 3 ) for ( 9,8,0,7,1,6,5,4,3,2 );"

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