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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: tagging package names (rpm, deb)
On Wednesday 30 May 2001 09:02, Mark Johnson wrote: > > This is simply a filename. It is a file on your system, > > package or not. > > So is a command (usually), but it has semantics that allow it to be > distinguished from its hum-drum existence as a mere file. At least that's > the way I'm thinking about packages... When you refer to the command as a file (an entry under /usr/bin, for example) , you should mark it up as a file. When you refer to a command as a command (something you do), you should mark it up as a command. In terms of a package, it depends upon how you will use it. In 95% of the cases, when you refer to a package, you refer to it in its role as a file. For the few other cases, a separate tag could be useful. But whether this tag should be a part of the official DocBook, or an extension to DocBook, is another matter. The FreeBSD documentation project added several tags that they felt were needed. Among these were <devicename>, <hostid> and <username>. Isn't the Linux documentation project also working on a DocBook extension? Perhaps this is where a package tag should go. Maybe Debian needs to create it's own extensions for its own use. -- David Johnson ___________________ http://www.usermode.org
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