From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IDKCs-0006dj-JM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:13:43 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6ODCkMq024279; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:12:46 GMT Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (mail.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.13]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l6ODA8IM020895 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:10:08 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost-12225.cs.tu-berlin.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FBCC19AC4; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:10:07 +0200 (MEST) Received: from mailhost.cs.tu-berlin.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.cs.tu-berlin.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 12224) with ESMTP id 16101-02; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:10:06 +0200 (MEST) 12680 Received: from joel.lan (i59F72BFE.versanet.de [89.247.43.254]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: buchholz) by mailhost.cs.tu-berlin.de (Postfix) with ESMTP; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:10:06 +0200 (MEST) From: Robert Buchholz To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Forbid using versions in DESCRIPTION Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:09:30 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: Petteri =?utf-8?q?R=C3=A4ty?= References: <46A5DE60.50708@gentoo.org> <20070724131614.0cb1593f@snowflake> <46A5EFF9.5080609@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <46A5EFF9.5080609@gentoo.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@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200707241509.30599.rbu@gentoo.org> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at cs.tu-berlin.de (including spamassassin) X-Archives-Salt: a7ce3fa4-02df-46a5-a687-3ead486dd46a X-Archives-Hash: f7639c9fed69383952ca09cd407d53ce On Tuesday, 24. July 2007 14:26, Petteri R=C3=A4ty wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh kirjoitti: > > On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:44:52 +0200 > > > > "Marijn Schouten (hkBst)" wrote: > >> Perhaps we should just move DESCRIPTIONs to metadata. That would > >> make it impossible to use ${PV} and more importantly also remove > >> some duplication. > > > > Got to be careful here. In the past it's been stated that Portage > > won't use XML for anything that it has to parse. > > Well here we need to answer the question whether searching > DESCRIPTION strings is a core feature. I have never used emerge > --searchdesc but that might be just me. I believe it to be a core feature. How else am I to find an rss reader=20 in portage without having any preference or knowledge before=20 installing? Or some random tool to convert X to Y. Often, features are not part of the name. Robert -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list