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From: Sebastian Pipping <webmaster@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [rfc] layman-global.txt, repositories.xml, layman, overlays.gentoo.org
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:57:41
Message-Id: 4AC37FF2.5070702@hartwork.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [rfc] layman-global.txt, repositories.xml, layman, overlays.gentoo.org by Fabian Groffen
1 Fabian Groffen wrote:
2 > Point remains that it looks in-consistant, for repo, name is an
3 > attribute, while for owner it is a sub-element. Why having attributes
4 > in the first place anyway?
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6 It's closer to the original layman-global.txt which also makes the
7 converter scripts simpler (and faster) than the element approach. I
8 think it's just right.
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11 > It's XML, so it may be extremely annoying to parse/use.
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13 Please elaborate on that.
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17 Sebastian

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