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>>>>> On Mon, 29 Mar 2021, Tim Harder wrote: |
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> Is there any interest these days in developing and maintaining a |
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> separate repo spec [1]? Among other uses, it would help in describing |
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> standardized repo features related to metadata/layout.conf settings |
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> allowing devs to reference a single, canonical source in order to |
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> support repo/profiles features. |
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> The current spec doesn't define many repo specific features leading to |
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> people jamming all sorts of conditional features in metadata/layout.conf |
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> via profile-formats and other entries, none of which is defined in the |
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> current spec. |
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> Mostly I'm asking because I'm tired of trying to support a pseudo-spec |
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> and am quite close to dropping pkgcore's support for the few |
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> profile-formats features it tries to enable. |
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Why not make it a chapter of PMS? A separate document would presumably |
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imply having a repository API (RAPI?) decoupled from EAPI? |
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Ulrich |
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