Idea - schematic information in %description
Jeff Johnson
n3npq at mac.com
Thu May 3 14:57:40 CEST 2007
If you want package categories, please add as a separate tag, not by
overloading description.
What really needs to be done is to attach a category hierarchy with,
but not in,
packaging. Rebuilding a package to change hierarchy is too burdensome.
I can/will add a header extension tag to rpm for any reasonably
designed format
for hierarchical categories of packages.
I suggest as a representation language YAML, but XML will work too.
The connections betweeen the categories and packages should be
specific enough to tag a single unique instance of a package using
pkgid or hdrid, as well as broad enough to match all packages with
same name.
The hierarchy identifiers should be internationalized as well.
hth
73 de Jeff
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