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| From: | Karl Trygve Kalleberg <karltk@×××××××.no> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-dev@g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] Parsable list of all use variables. | ||
| Date: | Fri, 10 May 2002 03:31:55 | ||
| Message-Id: | Pine.LNX.3.96.1020510102915.30654F-100000@pluto.prosalg.no | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-dev] Parsable list of all use variables. by Bob Phan |
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| 1 | On Thu, 9 May 2002, Bob Phan wrote: |
| 2 | |
| 3 | > I have taken a look at /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc, |
| 4 | > and while useful for users to read, it is not easily parsable. |
| 5 | |
| 6 | Actually it is. If you look at the lintool code, it parses the use.desc |
| 7 | file. What we do not get from this that we would get from XML is |
| 8 | validation. |
| 9 | |
| 10 | We might consider starting using XML at a later stage, but then we'd have |
| 11 | to make a very easy-to-use XML API for bash first. Any takers ? |
| 12 | |
| 13 | Karl T |