Idea - schematic information in %description

[Przemyslaw Iskra]

On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 01:35:28PM +0200, Łukasz Jernaś wrote:
> 
> Maybe something like Provides: SUPPORT_<extension>

I'd say: no. This has to be primatly information for people, not scripts
or for some automation.

> which could be even 
> autogenerated at build time from proper mime type description availible in 
> most packages .desktop files?
> [deejay1 at betty ~]$ cat /usr/share/applications/gimp.desktop | grep MimeType
> MimeType=image/bmp;image/g3fax;image/gif;image/jpeg;image/jpg;...

I was thinking about ripping information from .desktop files, but how
about console applications without desktop file ? Like file converters
and such. Or when some additional package is needed for that
funcionality.

Anyway MimeType from .desktop files should be useful to get
preliminary information.


And supported file types is not the only thing I'd like to be tagged
this way, but for now only other use for it I've got in my head is
describing game generes.

So now, let's think where such tagging may be useful. Later we will
think about the tags. And at the end about implementation. Because there
is no sense to think about implementation of something that does not
exist.

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