Peter Tribble wrote:
On 5/11/07, MC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
That said, it is important to provide detailed package information. I don't know if a
system is in place to provide a "details" section like you see in Synaptic (
http://people.ubuntulinux.org/~mako/docteam/images/synaptic-start.png ), but there should
be.
We would need to get the actual content from somewhere, in order to
display it. As far as I know, what goes into pkginfo files is a too terse
to be useful like that.
This probably has to be associated with the package, rather than simply
being metadata in a remote repository.
Questions for the install community really:
- do we have this sort of verbose and user-friendly descriptions available
for packages?
- would this go into the pkginfo file (I think this would be rather difficult)?
- if this doesn't go into the pkginfo file is there some other pre-existing
standard file to hold it, or would inventing something new be necessary?
It would have to be localized as well, so there would be quite a lot of
work in getting nice descriptions.
The DESC field in the pkginfo file is more or less this, though it has
limitations that limit the richness of the description. It doesn't have
any direct provision for localization, though.
Dave
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