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