On 13 February 2012 21:35, Markos Chandras wrote:
> This field wont be useful to users but to GUI applications that want
> to show a pretty name instead of a weird PN. It would be fully
> optional but it would have a standard syntax. You can't use
> for that to extract the real package name becau
Markos,
there are also webapps.
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On 2/11/12 2:00 PM, Fabio Erculiani 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.
Ho
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On 02/13/2012 12:42 AM, Thomas Sachau wrote:
> Alexandre Rostovtsev schrieb:
>> Users know a package's "natural name", not the occasionally
>> cryptic ebuild name, and certainly not the category. If I want to
>> install a game called "Neverwinter Nig
Alexandre Rostovtsev schrieb:
> Users know a package's "natural name", not the occasionally cryptic
> ebuild name, and certainly not the category. If I want to install a game
> called "Neverwinter Nights", it may not be immediately apparent to me
> that I should emerge something called "games-rpg/n
On 12 February 2012 21:34, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-02-12 at 22:22 +0100, Michał Górny wrote:
>> And AFAICS there's no 'nwn' in SRC_URI so it's just pointless to
>> abbreviate the name like that in our ebuild name.
>
> "nwn" is the name of the game's main executable and the stand
On Sun, 2012-02-12 at 22:22 +0100, Michał Górny wrote:
> And AFAICS there's no 'nwn' in SRC_URI so it's just pointless to
> abbreviate the name like that in our ebuild name.
"nwn" is the name of the game's main executable and the standard
abbreviation for Neverwinter Nights in the rpg community.
On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:14:42 -0500
Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-02-12 at 20:37 +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> > > On Sun, 12 Feb 2012, Paweł Hajdan, wrote:
> >
> > > On 2/11/12 2:00 PM, Fabio Erculiani wrote:
> > >> Other distros associate a more user-friendly package name
> >
On Sun, 2012-02-12 at 20:37 +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> > On Sun, 12 Feb 2012, Paweł Hajdan, wrote:
>
> > On 2/11/12 2:00 PM, Fabio Erculiani wrote:
> >> Other distros associate a more user-friendly package name
> >> (application name) to packages.
> >> Say, they bind libreoffice-writer to
> On Sun, 12 Feb 2012, Paweł Hajdan, wrote:
> On 2/11/12 2:00 PM, Fabio Erculiani wrote:
>> Other distros associate a more user-friendly package name
>> (application name) to packages.
>> Say, they bind libreoffice-writer to "LibreOffice Writer" in
>> package metadata.
[Replying to a random m
On 2/11/12 2:00 PM, Fabio Erculiani wrote:
> 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?
On 11-02-2012 19:02:12 -0500, Ian Stakenvicius wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:00:38 +0100 Fabio Erculiani
> 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. S
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On 11/02/12 08:27 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:00:38 +0100 Fabio Erculiani
> 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
>> packag
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:00:38 +0100
> Fabio Erculiani 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 packag
On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:00:38 +0100
Fabio Erculiani 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"
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
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