Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Current portage well designed, but badly used

[Gustavo Barbieri]

On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 11:31:52 -0600, Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@g.o> wrote:
> Gustavo Barbieri wrote:
> > Talking about metadata, why does HOMEPAGE and DESCRIPTION are in
> > ebuilds and not in metadata.xml, IMHO they're not used to build the
> > package in any way.   Maybe if we move those (always filled)
> > information to metadata.xml, people would fill other fields there.
>
> HOMEPAGE and DESCRIPTION have been in ebuilds for a *long* time where
> metadata.xml is a fairly recent addition.
>
> > Also, you said that this is irrelevant to the portage application, but
> > to the portage tree. Where can I talk to portage tree maintainers? If
> > I need to patch the entire portage with metadata.xml and stuff like
> > that, it will be an huge work, but if portage maintainers ask the
> > package maintainers to do it for next releases, many people would do
> > small jobs, easier than small group doing many jobs.
>
> Almost every dev is a portage tree maintainer. There is no master tree authority
> that all ebuilds must pass through before hitting the tree.

Okay, but at least promote a paragraph in some gentoo weekly news?
Something quick, just to mention metadata.xml.

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