Re: [gentoo-dev]

[Alin Nastac <mrness@gentoo.org>]

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Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:

>On Sun, 2005-05-08 at 19:53 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
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>>app-mobile sounds good to me ... then just use metadata.xml to include a 
>>'fuller' description :P
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>Please don't use app-mobile as it may be confused with mobile computing,
>not mobile phones.
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>Any reason why these packages can not go into app-pda? Most modern
>mobile phones can be considered a handheld computer (and many of them
>can be thought of as either a phone with integrated PDA - or a PDA with
>integrated phone).
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I think I will call it app-mobphone.

Please explain what do you understand as "mobile computing". You keep
using this term.
>From what I see in herds.xml, mobile == "Wireless (802.11a/b/g,
bluetooth, etc) related items"

Mobile phones are far from PDAs. I don't see anything you can't do with
a PDA (since it _is_ a computer).
Compared to them, _normal_ mobile phones are very limited devices.


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