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On 03/18/04 Olivier Crête wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I just re-read glep 5 and I noticed a problem with it. It proposes |
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> moving the licensing information to metadata.xml. First, the license |
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> can change from one version to another. And second, it's incompatible |
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> with glep 23 (the accept_licenses glep) which proposes to make use |
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> flags affect licenses (which seems pretty reasonable). So the license |
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> part should probably be dropped from glep 5. |
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I don't see a problem with the idea itself, but the implementation in |
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portage could be a problematic. It would either require adding xml |
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parsing code to some core routines or to handle variables from |
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metadata.xml completely different which would result in API changes |
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breaking tools. Another issue is that it could result in serious |
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performance penalties (e.g. emerge --search would have to parse |
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metadata.xml for possibly hundreds of packages) and the lost capability |
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of defining the variables in eclasses. |
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Marius |
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