On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 13:48, Heinrich Wendel wrote: > Based on the comments of the last thread on -dev about this GLEP I created a > new version. Please take a look at > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0016.html
The substance of this isn't changed as far as I can tell: the brunt of
creating all these .desktop files and maybe icons still lies on us.
I still agree with a point made in the last thread:
What's so bad about filing this as an upstream request instead? It significantly reduces our work since we don't have to do it for hundreds of packages. Instead, an upstream developer only has to do it once.
In one sence you could say: "There is no Gentoo, only Portage!" and you would be right, it is an upstream responsibility. I also belive that this is the only practical way of the Gentoo community.
On the other hand, if Gentoo Linux is ever going to be a complete OS, the Gentoo community must take responsibility for every last bit of code in it. In this case I belive that metadata should be part of the package not the application.
/John
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