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From: Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] metadata: add slots element
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 17:59:35
Message-Id: 561E97F5.4090909@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] metadata: add slots element by hasufell
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4 On 13/10/15 05:39 AM, hasufell wrote:
5 > On 10/13/2015 09:51 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote:
6 >>
7 >> that would work too, but dtd provides standardization, and
8 >> avoids duplicating package-wide information (meaning of
9 >> slot/subslot) in every single ebuild.
10 >>
11 >
12 > Yeah, the only thing that I wasn't sure about is the subslots
13 > part. With the proposed patch we don't document a subslot for a
14 > specific slot, but for the whole package. Everything else looked
15 > too complicated/ugly in xml and I'm not sure we even need it. If
16 > someone has a better idea, please speak up. I think it should be
17 > kept simple, because we want devs to fill in this kind of
18 > information, not confuse them.
19 >
20
21 Subslots are set to indicate changes from one ebuild to another,
22 that is loosely independent of $PV. I see it as a per-package
23 description, so the way it's been described here in the XML syntax
24 makes a lot of sense.
25
26 +1 from me for all of it, too.
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