Re: [gentoo-dev] December 15th Meeting Summary

[Brian Harring]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 01:45:04PM -0500, solar wrote:
> > So right now I'll go ahead and add the pycrypto code to portage, but
> > will not yet add the dep to any ebuild or change anything metadata.xml
> > or ChangeLog related (according to Jason 2.0.54 is still away one or
> > two weeks anyway).
>
> If you do that please set it as a blocker for the .54 release.
> Reintroducing ChangeLog/metadata.xml to Manifests would be a undesired
> regression. Nothing in the portage as of <=.53 make direct use of those
> two files and there is no security value in bloating the digest format
> with them. Thats why they were removed 2.0.51.21
>
> Making the argument for maybe portage in the future will use them is
> not valid as they are currently omited and we/I have been told before
> by the portage team (ferringb & jstubbs iirc??) that portage itself
> wont be doing any .xml parsing in it's core. IE So that means not today
> nor tomorrow will anything need to depend on those files in order to
> build.
Stated otherwise in irc in regards to your metadata.xml 
patch- metadata.xml support will be core, although due to 
certain constraints it'll be optional intially.

At some point, we're going to have to push long desc into the cache; 
at that point, portage will be required to be xml aware (yay).
~harring