From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99F2E13888F for ; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 09:39:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 854AA21C006; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 09:39:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8F659E07D1 for ; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 09:39:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.12] (aftr-37-201-214-64.unity-media.net [37.201.214.64]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: hasufell) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EFCC434073B for ; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 09:39:07 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] metadata: add slots element To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <1444670373-12706-1-git-send-email-hasufell@gentoo.org> <1444670373-12706-2-git-send-email-hasufell@gentoo.org> <20151012194926.51764c63@gentoo.org> <561BF56B.9040106@gentoo.org> <20151013081144.7accdcc7@archtester.homenetwork> <20151013095124.6abe0076@gentoo.org> From: hasufell Message-ID: <561CD138.1010704@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 11:39:04 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 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 In-Reply-To: <20151013095124.6abe0076@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d2249a77-f150-4778-8ffc-419075e5a141 X-Archives-Hash: dd86a26ed6d9110a8ede57100062107f On 10/13/2015 09:51 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > > that would work too, but dtd provides standardization, and avoids > duplicating package-wide information (meaning of slot/subslot) in every > single ebuild. > Yeah, the only thing that I wasn't sure about is the subslots part. With the proposed patch we don't document a subslot for a specific slot, but for the whole package. Everything else looked too complicated/ugly in xml and I'm not sure we even need it. If someone has a better idea, please speak up. I think it should be kept simple, because we want devs to fill in this kind of information, not confuse them.