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From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] making metadata.xml pay off and removing pkg_postinst crud
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 13:58:49
Message-Id: 200308151558.46624.pauldv@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] making metadata.xml pay off and removing pkg_postinst crud by Mike Frysinger
1 I like the idea, the biggest problem will be the extra dependencies though.
2 Make sure that there are not too many.
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4 I think the best implementation would just be a <postinst> tag with the normal
5 version selection attribute, and just have plaintext inside of it. Then
6 having that plaintext formatted (wordwrapping, coloring (or starts)) at the
7 moment it needs to displayed. You could even just an xsl sheet and xsltproc
8 (from libxslt) for it.
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10 Paul
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13 Paul de Vrieze
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