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On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:00:38 +0100 |
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Fabio Erculiani <lxnay@g.o> wrote: |
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> I think this is not the first time it's been discussed here, but maybe |
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> I'm wrong. |
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> Other distros associate a more user-friendly package name (application |
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> name) to packages. |
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> Say, they bind libreoffice-writer to "LibreOffice Writer" in package |
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> metadata. |
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> How about expanding metadata.xml (adding to its .dtd) to also support |
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> this? It would be nice to show this info in GUI package managers |
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> instead of the actual, and ugly (for the newbies), CP or CPV. |
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> It would be just a small addition that would make a big diff. |
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I think we already expand the name in DESCRIPTION whenever it is |
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ambiguous. |
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Could you please mention some Gentoo examples which would benefit from |
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the proposed change? |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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