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Re: tagging package names (rpm, deb)
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 04:54:45PM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote:
> / David Johnson <david@usermode.org> was heard to say:
> | The FreeBSD documentation project added several tags that they felt were
> | needed. Among these were <devicename>, <hostid> and <username>. Isn't the
As the author of the FreeBSD extensions. . .
> <devicename> = <filename class="device">
Not necessarily. Not all devices have entries in /dev; traditionally,
BSD hasn't included the network devices in there (anything you can
manipulate with ifconfig).
<systemitem class="device"> might also be appropriate.
> <username> = <systemitem class="username">
That's certainly another way to do it.
I decided to make these "first class" elements after observing that
DocBook seemed to be moving that way -- the migration from <systemitem
class="prompt"> to <prompt>, for example. Taking this further seemed
like the natural thing to do.
> I'm not sure what hostid means. I just wanted to point out that the
> DocBook TC is responsive to user needs :-)
RFE #124.
http://www.docbook.org/rfe/view/cgi-bin/dbrfe.pl?showopen=1&showaccepted=1&showpending=1&showintegrated=1&showclosed=1&showrejected=1&showbug=1&showenh=1&showdocbug=1&showdocenh=1&sortby=rfenumber&action=show&rfenumber=124
Lest anyone get the wrong end of the stick, I don't think that rejecting
these is necessarily a bad idea. DocBook can not be all things to all
people -- thankfully, it's easy enough to extend that customisations can
be made relatively easily.
N
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