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From: "Anthony E. Caudel" <tony.caudel@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Question re desktop-file-utils
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:46:26
Message-Id: 472393FD.1080500@sbcglobal.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Question re desktop-file-utils by "Bo Ørsted Andresen"
1 Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
2 > On Friday 26 October 2007 22:19:23 Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
3 >
4 >> On several emerges I see the message "
5 >>
6 >> Install dev-util/desktop-file-utils, if you want to help to improve
7 >> Gentoo."
8 >>
9 >> Can't really tell what this package does but how does it help Gentoo?
10 >>
11 >
12 > It validates .desktop files. If installed Gentoo uses this to print an elog
13 > message for .desktop files that doesn't follow the specs. Obviously it only
14 > helps Gentoo if you make sure it gets reported at bugs.gentoo.org whenever
15 > you encounter messages about invalid .desktop entries in packages in the
16 > tree...
17 >
18 >
19 Okay, a good thing. Will install.
20
21 Tony
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