Re: [gentoo-dev] additional files in portage tree

[Mikael Hallendal]

tekno@××.edu writes:

> My understanding of the purpose of the pkg-descr files is not to
> provide yet-another-"cryptic" file that gives information about the
> package.  It would seem to me, then, that providing an xml file for
> the end user would defeat this purpose... perhaps have an xml file
> that is parsed to generate the pkg-descr file for the end user as well
> as an html file for the web/wiki or whatever, but I, for one, would
> like to be able to use my standard tools on the file and get results
> that mean something.
>
> find /usr/portage -name "pkg-descr" -exec grep -H "somestring" {} \;
> less pkgname/pkg-descr etc.

Yes, that was what I meant by XML not be to userfriendly for a guy
using less. But we could easily hack together a tool for viewing the
file (nicely formatted too/colorized if we want) that you use instead
of less. So that you instead perhaps use something like:

'edesc pkgname' or something

Your way of doing it also seems totally right for me, to write it in
XML and generate a textfile from it.

Regards,
Mikael Hallendal

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