On Tue, 2022-09-06 at 10:40 +0100, Roy Bamford wrote: > On 2022.09.06 10:33, Michał Górny wrote: > > Hi, everyone. > > > > Since we've been standardizing some things in Gentoo lately, I was > > thinking we could try to get some media types registered with IANA. > > > > Particularly, I'm thinking of registering our Manifest format [1] as: > > > > text/vnd.gentoo.manifest > > > > and our new binary package container format [2] as: > > > > application/vnd.gentoo.gpkg > > > > However, the process is non-trivial and I'm not sure if the latter > > really qualifies, given we're only specifying the container and not > > the complete data format. To be honest, the specs are quite huge > > and I'd really appreciate some help grasping all of this. > > > > Perhaps ebuilds and eclasses would also qualify for registration. > > > > WDYT? > > > > [1] https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0074.html > > [2] https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0078.html > > > > -- > > Best regards, > > Michał Górny > > > > > > > > Michał, > > > However, the process is non-trivial ... > That's a down side. > > What are the benefits to Gentoo? >
Fame and glory? I think we might be the second (after Debian) distro to have officially registered MIME types. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
