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