On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:32:42 -0500 Brian Harring wrote: | A) what does xml bring to the table explicitly that is needed? A cool three letter acronym. Portage is currently lacking in this department. How are we expected to sell it to enterprise users if it doesn't use XML? -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm