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On 02/13/2012 12:42 AM, Thomas Sachau wrote:
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
On 2/11/12 2:00 PM, Fabio Erculiani wrote:
I think this is not the first time it's been discussed here, but maybe
I'm wrong.
Other distros associate a more user-friendly package name (application
name) to packages.
Say, they bind libreoffice-writer to LibreOffice Writer in package metadata.
How
Markos,
there are also webapps.
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On 13 February 2012 21:35, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote:
This field wont be useful to users but to GUI applications that want
to show a pretty name instead of a weird PN. It would be fully
optional but it would have a standard syntax. You can't use
longdesription for that to
On 11-02-2012 19:02:12 -0500, Ian Stakenvicius wrote:
On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:00:38 +0100 Fabio Erculiani
lx...@gentoo.org wrote:
I think this is not the first time it's been discussed here, but
maybe I'm wrong. Other distros associate a more user-friendly
package name (application name) to
On 2/11/12 2:00 PM, Fabio Erculiani wrote:
Other distros associate a more user-friendly package name (application
name) to packages.
Say, they bind libreoffice-writer to LibreOffice Writer in package metadata.
How about expanding metadata.xml (adding to its .dtd) to also support this?
I'm
On Sun, 12 Feb 2012, Paweł Hajdan, wrote:
On 2/11/12 2:00 PM, Fabio Erculiani wrote:
Other distros associate a more user-friendly package name
(application name) to packages.
Say, they bind libreoffice-writer to LibreOffice Writer in
package metadata.
[Replying to a random message in this
On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:14:42 -0500
Alexandre Rostovtsev tetrom...@gentoo.org wrote:
On Sun, 2012-02-12 at 20:37 +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
On Sun, 12 Feb 2012, Paweł Hajdan, wrote:
On 2/11/12 2:00 PM, Fabio Erculiani wrote:
Other distros associate a more user-friendly package name
On Sun, 2012-02-12 at 22:22 +0100, Michał Górny wrote:
And AFAICS there's no 'nwn' in SRC_URI so it's just pointless to
abbreviate the name like that in our ebuild name.
nwn is the name of the game's main executable and the standard
abbreviation for Neverwinter Nights in the rpg community.
On 12 February 2012 21:34, Alexandre Rostovtsev tetrom...@gentoo.org wrote:
On Sun, 2012-02-12 at 22:22 +0100, Michał Górny wrote:
And AFAICS there's no 'nwn' in SRC_URI so it's just pointless to
abbreviate the name like that in our ebuild name.
nwn is the name of the game's main executable
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.
I think this is not the first time it's been discussed here, but maybe
I'm wrong.
Other distros associate a more user-friendly package name (application
name) to packages.
Say, they bind libreoffice-writer to LibreOffice Writer in package metadata.
How about expanding metadata.xml (adding to its
On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:00:38 +0100
Fabio Erculiani lx...@gentoo.org wrote:
I think this is not the first time it's been discussed here, but maybe
I'm wrong.
Other distros associate a more user-friendly package name (application
name) to packages.
Say, they bind libreoffice-writer to
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote:
On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:00:38 +0100
Fabio Erculiani lx...@gentoo.org wrote:
I think this is not the first time it's been discussed here, but maybe
I'm wrong.
Other distros associate a more user-friendly package name
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On 11/02/12 08:27 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:00:38 +0100 Fabio Erculiani
lx...@gentoo.org wrote:
I think this is not the first time it's been discussed here, but
maybe I'm wrong. Other distros associate a more user-friendly
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