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On Fri, 27 May 2005 13:47:37 +0200 Danny van Dyk <kugelfang@g.o> |
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wrote: |
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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 |
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| > who 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 |
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| using |
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| a DESCRIPTION-cache. |
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Eww! emerge having to parse XML? Bad! Bad! Bad! If you want a search |
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tool, install one. |
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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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