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On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 19:33:37 +0100 Jan Kundrát <jkt@g.o> wrote: |
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| "Once this tool is implemented and well tested it can be integrated |
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| into portage." |
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can ! will. It might, but don't count on it. |
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| GLSA already contains stuff for marking items as valid only for given |
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| systems, for "injecting" them etc. Why don't use existing code? Why |
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| duplication? |
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Because it's quicker to invent a wheel which is actually round. |
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| > You think XML magically makes things compatible? Then I suggest you |
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| > write a GuieXML to Docbook conversion tool, and see how many |
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| > thousand lines of XSLT it takes. All XML does is move the |
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| > conversion and parsing problems to a different, more complex level. |
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| I'm not familiar with DocBook, but I doubt I'll need thousands of |
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| lines of code. |
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Oh? Our GuideXML to HTML conversion is thousands of lines of code... |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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