On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 7:10 AM, Sebastian Pipping<webmas...@hartwork.org> wrote: > I would love to see the GLEP on CPE names in metadata.xml discussed, > http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org/msg35155.html > > Any guidance on what I need to do to make it happen is very welcome.
Please read GLEP 1 [1], and more specifically the GLEP work flow. Your GLEP needs to be submitted to and then accepted by the GLEP editors. Once it is accepted it will be assigned a number and you can discuss it on gento-...@gentoo.org (announce it on gentoo-dev-annou...@gentoo.org with reply-to set to gentoo-...@gentoo.org). Once that is done and a consensus has been reached you can submit your GLEP to the council for vote. In your particular case I'd like to know what are the plans of the other distributions. I would even think that they should be involved in the discussion process. And what happens when packages don't exactly overlap? Binary distros often use many sub-packages to work around their lack of something like our USE flags, and also to avoid forcing users to download a whole bunch of non-executable stuff when the binaries were patched. This thing isn't as easy as your (short) GLEP draft makes it look like. Denis. [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0001.html
