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/nwn". > > Adding the natural name to metadata would allow users to more easily > find the packages they need via packages.gentoo.org and tools like eix. > > -Alexandre > > >
If people have to look into a file to find a name for a package different from the package name, they can also directly look into the ebuild or, even more simple, just use the search ability of portage or other tools, which are able to search the DESCRIPTION. So if package name really differs from the ebuild name, put it into the description and you can find the package with portage or tools like..... eix ;-) If you really, for whatever reasons, dont want to place it into DESCRIPTION, metadata.xml already has longdescription. If you place the full natural name of the package into that field together with an extended description, i am pretty sure, that noone will complain. So from my point of view, i currently dont see any need for a special field in metadata.xml to specify the natural name of a package. -- Thomas Sachau Gentoo Linux Developer
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