On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 19:33:37 +0100 Jan Kundrát <jkt@gentoo.org> wrote:
| "Once this tool is implemented and well tested it can be integrated
| into portage."

can ! will. It might, but don't count on it.

| GLSA already contains stuff for marking items as valid only for given
| systems, for "injecting" them etc. Why don't use existing code? Why
| duplication?

Because it's quicker to invent a wheel which is actually round.

| > You think XML magically makes things compatible? Then I suggest you
| > write a GuieXML to Docbook conversion tool, and see how many
| > thousand lines of XSLT it takes. All XML does is move the
| > conversion and parsing problems to a different, more complex level.
| 
| I'm not familiar with DocBook, but I doubt I'll need thousands of
| lines of code.

Oh? Our GuideXML to HTML conversion is thousands of lines of code...

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