[Installit-dev] Package categories

Jannis Pohlmann info at sten-net.de
Tue Sep 20 12:36:26 CEST 2005


Jannis Pohlmann schrieb:
> Morning,
> 
> ok, this is my new suggestion for the package list format.
> 
> <packages>
>   <categories>
>     <category title="Xfce Libraries" name="xfce-libs"/>
>     <category title="File Management" name="file-management"/>
>     <category title="Package Management" name="pkg-management"/>
>     ...
>   </categories
> 
>   <package name="thunar" version="1.0" category="file-management"/>
>   <package name="libexo" version="0.9" category="xfce-libs"/>
>   <package name="libexo" version="1.0" category="xfce-libs"/>
>   <package name="xfce4utils" version="4.3" category="xfce-libs"/>
>   <package name="installit" version="0.9" category="pkg-management"/>
>   ...
> 
>   <group title="Thunar 1.0">
>     <member name="thunar" version="1.0"/>
>     <member name="libexo" version="1.0"/>
>   </group>
> 
>   <group title="Xfce 4.3">
>     <member name="xfce4utils" version="4.3"/>
>     ...
>   </group>
> </packages>
> 

Ah, yes and this would be displayed this way:

- Groups
    * Thunar 1.0
    * Xfce 4.3
- File Management
    * thunar
- Package Management
    * installit
- Xfce Libraries
    * libexo
    * xfce4utils

The names "thunar", "installit", "libexo" and "xfce4utils" will be
replaced with the <title/> element of their header/control file.

- Jannis



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