On Mon, 8 Dec 2014 18:19:55 -0800 Thomas Kluyver <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 8 December 2014 at 18:09, Mattias Andrée > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The goal was to make it as simple as possible, but > > perhaps there is a simpler way than UUID:s. > > > > My idea is that the new system leaves all the dependency > management to distros: an end user application can depend > on distro packages, but can't be depended on itself, so > it wouldn't have an ID to specify as a dependency. If a > unique ID is needed, which it certainly may be, I'd go > for something more like Apple's UTIs (e.g. > com.microsoft.Excel), which have at least some meaning > without a lookup table. I would prefer a static identifier, and not have it changed if I move my package to a different site. > > Thomas _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
