Half of my posts are more of a note to myself than anything else. I forget simple things like that all the time (I still have to use stackoverflow almost every time I do a complex regex or any non-stanard printf format) The rest of the post follows my broken train of thought that if we want to ensure each file is un-corrupted, that a tarball listing won't be enough, since it doesn't do checksums. I have been browsing the repositories of different distros and really like the idea of having the package info in a separate file from the package; tiny core, for instance, uses squashfs packages and has the package info in a separate file. That seems to be the simplest way. I like simple.amigo wrote:Surely you didn't think I don't know how to list files in a package...? The list of files contained in a package is the first, most basic bit of data we can have. Can you imagine a package manager, or anything that calls itself a package manager which would be *unable* to produce a package fiile-list or remove a package. Oh wait, there is a distro that is famous for this... Still, I have some theoretical examples that are way more absurd.
I wonder if a live video feed / recorded lightning talk would be a possibility, since there's no way I could make it to Brussels. Rox specifically could benefit from the Mime-type + package manager integration parts. I'd also like to integrate the suggests/recommends items into the start menu via a right click menu... I wonder if I should submit a rewritten version of my previously mentioned Rox start menu? I stopped working on it after realizing that the XDG spec for .directory files was too ambiguous to the point that there is very little cross distro compatibility and the icon naming spec and desktop spec need some additional work to sync them up, but I don't recall the exact details. Though it would probably be better to patch Rox to properly handle mime-apps.list according to the spec ..instead of (or in addition to ) a directory full of shell scripts or links for handlers, use:I really re-posted here just to include the text of an email I just got from the rox-users mailing list -some very interesting and pertinent topics they are going to explore:Message: 1
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2017 14:10:40 +0100
From: Liam Proven <lproven@gmail.com>
To: ROX Desktop Mailing List <rox-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: [rox-users] FosDem
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Will any ROX people be at FOSdem? Prime material for a presentation, I think...
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