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From: John Nilsson <john@×××××××.nu>
To: Markus Nigbur <pyrania@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Difference of global/local useflags
Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 21:36:26
Message-Id: 1085089085.8755.50.camel@newkid.milsson.nu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Difference of global/local useflags by John Nilsson
1 On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 22:52, John Nilsson wrote:
2 > I feel that we should try to move away from the monolithic nature of the
3 > portage tree and try to harness the power of "the web" more. To do that
4 > we have to push as much of the package handling as possible upstream.
5 >
6 > -John
7
8 Thinking of this some more...
9
10 All this metadata, and dependency stuff is really suitable for some web
11 standardization. It isn't really my area, but wasn't RDF created for
12 this kind of problems?
13
14 By the way, I really urge people to read Roy Fielding's dissertation
15 about the web architecture. Not entirely related but a good read.
16 <http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm>
17
18 -John

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