Re: [gentoo-dev] additional files in portage tree

My understanding of the purpose of the pkg-descr files is not to provide
yet-another-"cryptic" file that gives information about the package.  It
would seem to me, then, that providing an xml file for the end user
would defeat this purpose... perhaps have an xml file that is parsed to
generate the pkg-descr file for the end user as well as an html file for
the web/wiki or whatever, but I, for one, would like to be able to use
my standard tools on the file and get results that mean something.

find /usr/portage -name "pkg-descr" -exec grep -H "somestring" {} \;
less pkgname/pkg-descr
etc.

just my $0.02

Justin

On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 12:44:46AM +0200, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
> Hi!
>
> The problem with xml is that it's hard to read without a tool, we
> could however easily write such a tool that we use for viewing those
> files. So I'd say that an xml-file describing the package would be
> nice since it can then be used on the web for browsing available
> packages.
>
> Regards,
> Mikael Hallendal
>
> Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> writes:
>
> > On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 12:05:25PM -0500, Ben Lutgens wrote:
> >
> > > I just think it'd be nice to have a file that we can less to find
> > >out what a package is, sometimes the name isn't enough as I can't
> > >possibly keep straight everything and the DESCRIPTION in the ebuild
> > >isn't great since noone wants to clutter everything up.
> >
> > This could be helpful.  It also looks like a good candidate for XML,
> > which would also make it easy to get this information on the Web site.
> > Let's see what other people think about the idea.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >
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