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On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 23:44, Joseph Booker wrote: |
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> John Nilsson said: |
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> > All this metadata, and dependency stuff is really suitable for some web |
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> > standardization. It isn't really my area, but wasn't RDF created for |
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> > this kind of problems? |
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> So, perfect for RSS feeds and your media libary or playlist or whatever |
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> your media player callls it, but not for something big and complex such as |
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> all the ebuilds (all the ebuilds in one file seems scary and impossible |
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> anyways) |
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> also, maybe you can elaborate on what you mean by web standardization? |
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I meant for upstream developers. So instead of ./README or ./INSTALL |
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stating dependencies ./METADATA.xml or what have you. |
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A package should provide a uri interface to this information so that |
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webservices for dependency resolving can be created. |
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Make portage more of a webservice... |
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-John |
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