From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j2BNxi2Z005083 for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 23:59:44 GMT Received: from res-24-197-134-218.spa.sc.charter.com ([24.197.134.218] helo=mail.twi-31o2.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D9u2i-0008JN-2Q for gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 23:59:44 +0000 Received: from vertigo.twi-31o2.org (vertigo.twi-31o2.org [192.168.0.10]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.twi-31o2.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF4E824808F for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 18:54:47 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Per-Category metadata.xml Files From: Chris Gianelloni To: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20050311202114.6e2181c3@snowdrop> References: <20050311162421.404bb1e7@snowdrop> <4231FA9E.2090500@gentoo.org> <20050311202114.6e2181c3@snowdrop> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-kX4v8RJD2OcWD4xZMvW3" Organization: Gentoo Linux Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 18:54:21 -0500 Message-Id: <1110585261.18760.6.camel@vertigo.twi-31o2.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: , , List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 X-Archives-Salt: 18b5c1e9-dc74-4dcc-b329-ccf26232518e X-Archives-Hash: 9fa86a47f2177e327269fe8d162fcc96 --=-kX4v8RJD2OcWD4xZMvW3 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 20:21 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > | > The ```` and ```` elements are not generally > | > relevant at the category level. > |=20 > | If they are, can they be used? >=20 > 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. --=20 Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager Games - Developer Gentoo Linux --=-kX4v8RJD2OcWD4xZMvW3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBCMi+tkT4lNIS36YERAtnAAJ47/Ricb99XB2XP8Q9RQxdg/5klwACgwslA 1saIu8XxFeKDEkNtk18Hsq8= =tiTk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-kX4v8RJD2OcWD4xZMvW3-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list