Andrew Hoying wrote:
> We could develop a nice xml/xslt interface to it all that would be easy to
> parse, sort and categorize. It makes a lot of sense, but would require
> updating a lot of old packages to include the .desc file.
That wouldn't take that much. I've recompiled almost everything at
least once. Next step is to create a LRP directory which contains
everything, including options used to compile, etc. Then a diff file
would be created, so that a generic package could be patched for LRP,
then the package could be created quite easily - and the options changed
if wanted.
> It would be a lot
> easier to find a package, in the wild, for a given problem, even if you
> didn't know the name of the program. Like searching for an MTA and coming up
> with ssmtp.
Add to ssmtp.desc:
Keywords: mta mail smtp ssmtp sendmail
:-)
One thing: must agree on the "tags" in order to make this work - and
anything that reads the *.desc file must be able to handle strange and
unknown tags that come up in it.
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