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From: Francisco Gimeno <kikov@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Parsable list of all use variables.
Date: Thu, 09 May 2002 15:28:35
Message-Id: 200205092227.47170.kikov@fco-gimeno.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Parsable list of all use variables. by Bob Phan
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4 El Jue 09 May 2002 18:06, Bob Phan escribió:
5 > I think it would be a good idea for someone (I could do this if no one
6 > wants to) to maintain a parsable list of all the use variables, what
7 > they are for, and which ebuilds use them. This would be useful for
8 > writing tools that would want to know this information, or even for
9 > automatic maintenence of a webpage for use variables. CSV or XML
10 > would be a good format for this. XML may be overkill, expecially for
11 > someone wanting to write a shell script with acess to this
12 > information, but XML would also work great for c, perl, python, and
13 > web maintenence.
14 >
15 > I have taken a look at /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc,
16 > and while useful for users to read, it is not easily parsable.
17 >
18 > Any thoughts, suggestions?
19 Well... I think that with and xlstproc parser, XML could be HTML easily.
20 And maybe with XML you could write C programs... and so...
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22 I beat for XML!
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24 Greetings!
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