From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MGHcb-0004ku-1A for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:13:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8584EE046D; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:13:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtprelay01.ispgateway.de (smtprelay01.ispgateway.de [80.67.18.13]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51C99E046D for ; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:13:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [85.179.15.131] (helo=[192.168.0.3]) by smtprelay01.ispgateway.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1MGHcW-00035V-EJ; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:13:29 +0200 Message-ID: <4A369D57.2030004@hartwork.org> Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:13:27 +0200 From: Sebastian Pipping User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090502) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Buchholz CC: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org, PackageKit users and developers list , Paul Wise , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Petteri_R=E4ty?= Subject: Re: [packagekit] [gentoo-dev] Inviting you to project "PackageMap" References: <4A3206DA.3090907@hartwork.org> <200906151552.08793.rbu@gentoo.org> <4A367F08.3050209@hartwork.org> <200906152024.54418.rbu@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200906152024.54418.rbu@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Df-Sender: 874396 X-Archives-Salt: 72df7390-6bae-49dd-b4c4-cc40104ddd27 X-Archives-Hash: 54b9f65b7f0d22ba5c660492287d9b38 Robert Buchholz wrote: > The consumers of the PackageMap will always only use the central > database. I'm not sure about that. I rather assume it will happen. Especially use ignoring the substitution map. > I am convinced the project will be more viable if people can choose > their level of contribution. Many developers just won't care enough to > take the extra hassle. Agreed. However, I don't see a huge difference in level of extra hassle. The most difficult thing is doing who's-the-vendor research in my eyes atm which is the same at both ends. Maybe collaborating at a central place can add some fun that adding "some field I don't really care about" downstream cannot. Btw on Gentoo putting it in metadata.xml might be adding to the risk of a checksum mismatch, at least for extra edits. No idea if QA tools will catch 90% of that happening. > If you make merging easy, I don't see how this hurts the project. I don't see how easy merging compensates for the issues I brought up. Can I have a few more voices on this?: Would you clearly feel more comfortable and motivated to contribute to PackageMap if it works at your distro's source package? Sebastian