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. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
