[install-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: [desktop-discuss] Re: New project: JPack -

[Dave Miner]

Peter Tribble wrote:
> On 5/11/07, MC <rac at eastlink.ca> wrote:
>> That said, it is important to provide detailed package information.  I don't know if a system is in place to provide a "details" section like you see in Synaptic ( http://people.ubuntulinux.org/~mako/docteam/images/synaptic-start.png ), but there should be.
> 
> We would need to get the actual content from somewhere, in order to
> display it. As far as I know, what goes into pkginfo files is a too terse
> to be useful like that.
> 
> This probably has to be associated with the package, rather than simply
> being metadata in a remote repository.
> 
> Questions for the install community really:
> 
>  - do we have this sort of verbose and user-friendly descriptions available
> for packages?
> 
>  - would this go into the pkginfo file (I think this would be rather difficult)?
> 
>  - if this doesn't go into the pkginfo file is there some other pre-existing
> standard file to hold it, or would inventing something new be necessary?
> 
> It would have to be localized as well, so there would be quite a lot of
> work in getting nice descriptions.
> 

The DESC field in the pkginfo file is more or less this, though it has 
limitations that limit the richness of the description.  It doesn't have 
any direct provision for localization, though.

Dave