Re^4: Debian Metadata Proposal -- draft rev.1.4
Am 07.07.98 schrieb Marcus.Brinkmann # ruhr-uni-bochum.de ...
Moin Marcus!
MB> They are the orthogonal sorting criteria for documents *you* requested two
MB> months ago (you said you would want all howto's in a section. This can be
MB> done in a perfect and harmonical way via the "Type:" field. Doing it in
MB> the "Subject" field really is abuse. "howto" is not a subject, it is a
MB> type.)
Why should we have to tags with the same result for the user? And I will
be very difficult to choose the right type for most documents.
MB> > Nice argument :).
MB> I still don't think it is elegant to spread the files in hundreds of
MB> directories (and we have 1800 packages) --- in fact it is slower and not
Slower? Please have a look at a postinst file of a package that support
dhelp or read the dhelp documentation. Where#s the difference?
dhelp_parse -a /usr/doc/foo/.docreg
dhelp_parse -a /usr/share/doc-base/foo.docreg
And please try to search a directory with 1800 files!
MB> necessary at all. And we need a common directory for files that can't be
MB> associated witha special package anyway.
Example? Every entry is installed by a package and every package has got a
/usr/doc/<foo> directory. I don#t understand this argument.
MB> What were your technical objections?
Read other mail.
cu, Marco
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