On edward, Steve Greenland <stevegr@debian.org> wrote: > Edward, I think this would be better discussed on debian-devel, as > it seems more a technical proposal than a policy one (yes, it would > eventually become policy, but for now, it's not really). Anyway, I > suggest you re-post it there, and post a followup to -policy saying > you've done so. > > Some nitpicks: > > One could argue that anything that looks at environment variables *is* > asking the user. > > > examples: gnu emacs, gnu emacs, xemacs, xemacs, jove ??, zile ?? > > You've made duplicate entries, or I don't understand your syntax. A mistake, I do not know how that happened, should have been: examples: gnu emacs 19, gnu emacs 20, xemacs 20, xemacs 21, jove ??, zile ?? > > pager - Any pager. examples: less, more, vim -R, nview > > view - The vi style pager. examples: nvi, vim -R > > view (nview, vim -R, etc.) are NOT pagers, in the standard sense. Try > "ls -l | view" to see what I mean. Good point, I tend to use `view -' but I relise that only works with vim not nvi. > > www-browser examples: lynx, netscape > > netscape examples: communicator, navigator > > You might add "graphical-www-browswer". Or is that distinction handled > by the interface class? Good point, I suppose that it could be argued you could have a graphical-www-browser on the console using aalib to render graphics as ascii art :-) and a browser for X11 that only reders text, no graphics. But since neither of these are currently avaliable, and are unlikely to become avaliable, I would agree that the interface tag should handle it. > I think it is. I'd like to see more discussion. I'm going to have > to let it sink in for a day or two before I make more comment. For all those that did not see the original I posted on debian-policy it is at http://www.hairnet.demon.co.uk/edward/moretags.html -- I consume, therefore I am
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