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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:48:24 +0200
From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [rfc] layman-global.txt, repositories.xml,
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On 30-09-2009 17:36:47 +0200, Sebastian Pipping wrote:
> Tiziano M=C3=BCller wrote:
> > Am Montag, den 28.09.2009, 20:23 +0200 schrieb Sebastian Pipping:
> >> repositories.xml
> >> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
> >>   <repo
> >>       name=3D"sping"
> >>       quality=3D"experimental"
> >>       status=3D"unofficial">
> >>     <description>Gentoo overlay of Sebastian Pipping</description>
> >>     <homepage>http://git.goodpoint.de/?p=3Doverlay-sping.git</homepa=
ge>
> >>     <owner type=3D"person">
> >>       <email>sebastian@pipping.org</email>
> >>       <name>Sebastian Pipping</name>
> >>     </owner>
> >>     <source type=3D"git">git://git.goodpoint.de/overlay-sping.git</s=
ource>
> >>     <feed>http://git.goodpoint.de/?p=3Doverlay-sping.git.git;a=3Dato=
m</feed>
> >>   </repo>
> >> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
> >=20
> > What is the reason that "name" is an attribute? While quality, status
> > and type have a distinct set of allowed values, name doesn't and I'd
> > therefore set it as an element instead.
>=20
> I don't see value in that change and I like name as it is.

Point remains that it looks in-consistant, for repo, name is an
attribute, while for owner it is a sub-element.  Why having attributes
in the first place anyway?
It's XML, so it may be extremely annoying to parse/use.


--=20
Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level