Re: Debian packages and freedesktop.org (Gnome, KDE, etc) menu entries

[Chris Cheney <ccheney@cheney.cx>]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 06:33:52PM -0500, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 04:11:08PM -0600, Chris Cheney <ccheney@cheney.cx> was heard to say:
> > All that would do is make it consitently different from all other
> > distributions. Assuming that they listed the proper Categories in their
>                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > "Categories:" section all that would be needed, if we wanted to be
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
>   Isn't that a rather large assumption?

If they aren't in the proper categories as listed by the standard it
should be treated as any other bug and be corrected. That won't be the
common case, and we can just write the convertor to look for the
standardized categories.

Chris

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