On 8/24/07, Enrico Zini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 1) I see that there are tags works-with-format::zip, but not > > works-with-format::gzip. I'm not sure exactly how useful something like > that > > would be, or how many formats tags ought to be created for.. > > I think there's no works-with-format::gzip because it's so widely > supported that I have trouble seeing a use case for someone looking for > "something that can handle gzips": almost everything can. > > There is however more than a use case for looking for programs that can > unpack a .zip file. At least, this would be the rationale, but I can of > course be missing something.
OK, so you don't expect to have works-with-format::* for every format. I understand your point. Maybe we need something to encode a concept > like "the maintainer believe this package is not to be used directly, > but instead as a runtime support for more high-level libraries", but I > can't think of any straightforward way of doing that. Maybe role::dependency? Or special::dependency, by way of analogy with special::obsolete? I'd say, happily go with role::devel-lib and leave it to the users to > decide if they need it or not. In fact, you can take advantage of the > package description and add a note telling them that they most likely > don't, unless in very few specific cases. > I'm not the package maintainer, so I can't do that, but hopefully it should be clear enough when looking at the package description. Ethan
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