[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #9825: package information are too restrictive
- From: "bonefish" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:58:47 -0000
#9825: package information are too restrictive
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Reporter: X512 | Owner: nobody
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1
Component: - General | Version: R1/Package Management
Resolution: | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: All
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Comment (by bonefish):
The "requires" attribute is not mandatory; it can already be omitted.
Package description and license are intentionally mandatory, since we'd
like to avoid packages that no one knows what they are about and in which
way one is allowed to use them. If you're building a package just for
yourself, you can just specify dummy values for these attributes.
The package name is intentionally restricted. It is also encoded in the
package file name, so white space and non-ASCII characters would be
annoying. Maybe we should introduce a "display name" attribute.
Description and summary should indeed be localizable. We haven't worked
out how we'll handle that. The translations will very likely not end up in
the package file itself or in the package info, since that would just add
unnecessarily to the package size. We'll most likely implement that at the
repository level.
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/9825#comment:1>
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