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On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:23:48 +0100 |
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flameeyes@×××××.com (Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò) wrote: |
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> This makes it easier to get the package's homepage for submitting bugs |
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> upstream (you just do a single lookup for the metadata.xml file rather |
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> than checking the ebuild |
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...or you have a tool that uses the package manager API to show you the |
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homepage of the package in the current directory. I've attached a small |
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script that'll do that for you -- much easier than trying to dig your |
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way through an XML file. |
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> It also makes searching by homepage easier (a search program would |
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> take much less time to parse XML that an ebuild). |
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Search programs don't parse ebuilds. They parse the metadata cache, |
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which is an awful lot easier to parse than XML. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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