Re: Proposal for adding a field in packages descriptions
Wolfgang Mader writes:
> On Thursday 04 March 2004 19:49, Michael Schuerig wrote:
>> I think you won't be able to make it work in a useful fashion. My
>> suggestion is that you randomly select 10 to 100 debian packages
>> and try to determine the appropriate MIME types. That way you'll
>> get a feel for how/if your idea might work in practice.
>>
>> Which types an application or lib is able to handle is not fixed in
>> a lot of cases, in particular, where plugins or other dynamically
>> loaded libs are used. Just think of Konqueror and various media
>> players. And then, the MIME type by itself doesn't say what an
>> application/lib does. Lacking a better example, think of MIDI
>> files. It's a huge difference between an app plays back the file
>> and another app that prints a score of the notes.
> First of all - the idea is great in my oponion. On the other side
> there are big problems to manage (see the quotation). But if you
> think that you can do this or find another way to provide us with an
> install-on-use feature go ahead and do this.
If you're thinking about implementing this, you should also look at
the debtags system. You can prolly find a link with google.
cheers
domi
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