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From: Michael Hanselmann <hansmi@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Treewide metadata.xml
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 10:41:38
Message-Id: 20050527104143.GA27890@hansmi.ch
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Treewide metadata.xml by Danny van Dyk
1 Hello Danny
2
3 > Let's keep the metadata.xml in each package's directory in _CVS only_.
4 > Don't propagate them via rsync. Instead, use a script to compile all
5 > metadata.xml files into one central (XML) file. (This would probably
6 > need slight changes to the DTD). This file would then be placed into
7 > gentoo-portage/metadata/ and Portage,devs and users could easily parse
8 > it.
9
10 Sounds good for me, it would also save some inodes and blocks on the
11 hard drive. Implementing the compilation should be easy using XSLT.
12
13 Greets,
14 Michael
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