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Hi Brian |
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> What's the gain, aside from implication of collapsing it into a |
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> single file? Honestly my only use for metadata.xml is looking up who |
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> I get to poke about fixing broken ebuilds... |
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The gain is: |
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... that you portage people could use it for emerge -s instead of using |
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a DESCRIPTION-cache. |
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... we don't need to find the metadata.xml file before parsing it. |
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... reducing the number of files in the (public) tree. |
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Danny |
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Danny van Dyk <kugelfang@g.o> |
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Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project |
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