Scribit Kevin Mark dies 13/10/2005 hora 02:26: > I was thinking of a feature that would show 'recommends' but add a > line line explaining what installing package X would add to the > currently selected package. > > [...] > > if this metadata could be added to the package data file it could be > utilized by some program(not sure which or how). I think Debian should develop a general metadata solution for APT. There are already very powerful tools to handle metadata, like the RDF data model, it's serializations (RDF/XML, N3, etc.) and tools associated (Raptor, Rasqal and Redland already packaged in Debian, including sarge). With a generic metadata infrastructure in the APT tools, it wouldn't be a pain anymore to extend APT: debtags could be achieved with it, dependency explanation also. With a separation between the core APT features, like installation end dependency handling, and the metadata addon, it could also be possible to fetch metadata elsewhere: one could have it's own debtags metadata, or some teams of DD or users could publish specific debtags (e.g. for parents that don't want violent games on their system...). Generically, Nowhere man -- nowhere.man@levallois.eu.org OpenPGP 0xD9D50D8A
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