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From: "Tiziano Müller" <dev-zero@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [2 GLEPs] metadata improvements
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:59:13
Message-Id: g4lvdh$953$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [2 GLEPs] metadata improvements by "Robin H. Johnson"
1 Robin H. Johnson wrote:
2
3 > On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 04:22:02PM +0200, Tiziano M?ller wrote:
4 >> One GLEP introduces new elements 'team', 'dev' and 'proxy':
5 >> http://dev.gentoo.org/~dev-zero/glep/glep-new_metadata_elements.html
6 > 1. With the addition of <maintainer><team>cpp</team></maintainer>, why
7 > do we still need <herd> elements?
8
9 I'd see the herd element as kind of tag which could be used to search for
10 packages (given the corresponding tools).
11
12 >
13 > 2. "<gentoo:dev>dev-zero</gentoo:dev>". That's not possible to validate
14 > sanely. The following would be better:
15 > <maintainer><dev project="foobar">moodev</dev></maintainer>
16 >
17 > With the default value of the 'project' attribute being 'gentoo'.
18 >
19 That's another good solution. The possibility I mentioned is rather suitable
20 for others wanting to extend our metadata.xml format (and still be able to
21 validate the content of gentoo:dev against our list of devs).
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [2 GLEPs] metadata improvements "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>