Idea - schematic information in %description

[Przemyslaw Iskra]

On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 05:40:10PM +0200, Patryk Zawadzki wrote:
> On 5/3/07, Jeff Johnson <n3npq at mac.com> wrote:
> > If you want package categories, please add as a separate tag, not by
> > overloading description.
> 
> Additionally, there is little to no sense to list file extensions as
> *NIX has no concept of extensions. Systems operate on MIME types.

I did not mean file extensions but some short names for its type. And
for reproducing music noone is going to look for application with
audio/mpeg support, but with mp3 support. File extensions suck, but
everyone uses and knows them.


> I agree but I see no real advantage of listing handled file types for
> each package. Expecially since package X might only support MIME type
> Y if Z is also installed or if manually configured to use V.

"
In some cases additional, optional plugins would be required to get some
funcionality, that funcionality should be listed in main package anyway,
but in parentesis plugin name should be specified.

ImageMagick (convert):
 Convert: png (coder-png), jpeg (coder-jpeg), (...)
 Save: png (coder-png), jpeg (coder-jpeg), (...)
"


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