On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 05:45:39 +0100 (CET), Dag Wieers wrote: > > > > > RPMforge uses X-Red-Hat-Base everywhere. Should we be worried ? :) > > > > What's the effect of changing the category, what is it used for ? > > > > > > X-Red-Hat-Base puts a desktop menu entry into the top menu, while > > > X-Red-Hat-Extra marks desktop menu entries which appear in the > > > "More ..." sub-menus. X-Fedora is just a placeholder. > > > > I don't like a meaningless placeholder. > > It's not meaningless. X-Fedora has been used to mark menu entries as > coming from Fedora Linux. Whether it is evaluated somewhere is > implementation dependent. X-Red-Hat-Extra is not evaluated either, I > think. Only X-Red-Hat-Base provides the special function of placing menu > entries in the top-level menu. > > X-Fedora-Extra or X-Fedora-Extras would mark menu entries as coming from > Fedora Extras and would distinguish them from manually installed ones. > A desktop menu editor might put such markers to good effect. I understand that. With meaningless I meant that I don't see good use for users to distinguish a Fedora Extras and a non-Fedora-Extras package. What do you think would people do with this information ? I'd like to implement something that has a direct benefit, which I do not see here. -- dag wieers, dag@xxxxxxxxxx, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]
