On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 20:21 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > | > The ```` and ```` elements are not generally > | > relevant at the category level. > | > | If they are, can they be used? > > The DTD says they can be. Or, at least, I see no reason to impose > additional restrictions saying that they can't. I wouldn't consider them > an appropriate substitute for per-package metadata, however. I honestly wouldn't mind seeing inheritance allowed at some point in the future, but I also understand the amount of additional work that would entail and would much rather get this implemented in its current form, than to hold it up waiting for all the necessary tools be updated to support inheritance. It definitely would be cool, though. It would end up making the tree smaller, as many packages (again, I'll use games-* as an example) wouldn't need a metadata.xml, at all. Then there are packages like ut2004-*, which could inherit the metadata from ut2004. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager Games - Developer Gentoo Linux