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Tres Seaver wrote:
> M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>> Tarek Ziadé wrote:

>>> Values could be things like "libxslt", "libpng", etc..
>> Am I right in understanding this as informational field only ?
> 
> Yes.  The primary consumers will be OS packagers, who will map them onto
> their own package names.  As with other metadata they care about, we
> hope that the packagers will suggest packages to make these names

- --------------------------------------^ s/packages/patches/

> "uniform" acrrss Python distributions.  I imagine there will be some
> jockeying among them to find the "common" name for such things, which
> they will then need to map.

Dang muscle memory typed it for me.


Tres.
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