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From: Carsten Lohrke <carlo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] proposed solution to arches/stable problem
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 22:19:56
Message-Id: 200406230019.53167.carlo@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] proposed solution to arches/stable problem by Ciaran McCreesh
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4 On Tuesday 22 June 2004 19:52, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
5 > Why not put a <maintainernotes> in metadata.xml instead? Much cleaner,
6 > provides much more information, doesn't imply meaning in an existing
7 > field which does not currently provide any information.
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9 If we maybe later would like to implement the possibility that users can
10 decide only to use package maintainer approved packages, portage would have
11 to parse metadata.xml, too. I thought metadata.xml is more suited for less
12 variable data!?
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15 Carsten
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