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On Tuesday, 24. July 2007 14:26, Petteri Räty wrote: |
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> Ciaran McCreesh kirjoitti: |
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> > On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:44:52 +0200 |
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> > |
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> > "Marijn Schouten (hkBst)" <hkBst@g.o> wrote: |
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> >> Perhaps we should just move DESCRIPTIONs to metadata. That would |
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> >> make it impossible to use ${PV} and more importantly also remove |
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> >> some duplication. |
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> > |
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> > Got to be careful here. In the past it's been stated that Portage |
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> > won't use XML for anything that it has to parse. |
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> Well here we need to answer the question whether searching |
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> DESCRIPTION strings is a core feature. I have never used emerge |
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> --searchdesc but that might be just me. |
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I believe it to be a core feature. How else am I to find an rss reader |
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in portage without having any preference or knowledge before |
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installing? Or some random tool to convert X to Y. |
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Often, features are not part of the name. |
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Robert |
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