Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] metadata: add slots element

[Ian Stakenvicius <axs@gentoo.org>]

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On 13/10/15 05:39 AM, hasufell wrote:
> 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.
> 

Subslots are set to indicate changes from one ebuild to another,
that is loosely independent of $PV.  I see it as a per-package
description, so the way it's been described here in the XML syntax
makes a lot of sense.

+1 from me for all of it, too.

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