Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Brian Harring <ferringb@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Allow upstream tags in metadata.xml (GLEP 46)
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 01:13:51
Message-Id: 20051227010921.GC5809@nightcrawler.e-centre.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Allow upstream tags in metadata.xml (GLEP 46) by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 12:59:34AM +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 01:45:00 +0100 Stefan Schweizer
3 > <genstef@g.o> wrote:
4 > | That will increase the sync time for all of our users - can we please
5 > | keep this info out of the sync-tree?
6 >
7 > Learn to use the rsync exclude list.
8 metadata.xml is/will be required someday due to long description being
9 stuck in there.
10
11 Excluding it isn't incredibly useful in light of that.
12
13 Personally... would rather see maintainer info stuck somewhere else,
14 but not something I'm going to fight tooth and nail over.
15 ~harring