-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 11/02/12 08:27 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > 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? >
I don't think it's about being unambiguous, I think it's about providing a common language title for the package. I could see this as being something desirable for a portage gui or to add more descriptive results to a search engine. That said, I expect there would need to be a near-portage-wide adoption of the new entry for this to be useful in either case, and I don't see that happening... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAk83AYQACgkQAJxUfCtlWe2RAgD/b1DCfb9KgiL0KrukK0GDBXYh r9ldAD4DWD2yKy9nFhwBAK2NYfF9c1kvkiw63WgCvR2ICGs+vaodNwHesNXHkpiw =v02O -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
