From: Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] A new glep: Ebuild format and metadata handling
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 06:33:06 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8b4c83ad0906031803u4fecc847y8e61e38a516e1893@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <eb9225a70906031752s1a0bf999rbbb6e5313c6d514e@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 6:22 AM, Wyatt Epp <wyatt.epp@gmail.com> wrote:
> Okay, this has been bothering me....sorry if this is a sort of silly
> question, but why not just use the (already extant) metadata.xml for
> the...err, metadata about a package?
>
That's because package-manager critical information cannot be included
in an XML file, purely to prevent the added overhead of having to
implement an XML parser inside every package manager.
metadata.xml contains information that is relevant to the user and to
developers, not to the package manager.
--
~Nirbheek Chauhan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-04 1:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-31 13:56 [gentoo-dev] A new glep: Ebuild format and metadata handling Patrick Lauer
2009-05-31 22:09 ` Richard Freeman
2009-06-04 0:52 ` Wyatt Epp
2009-06-04 1:03 ` Nirbheek Chauhan [this message]
2009-06-01 10:35 ` Thilo Bangert
2009-06-01 15:26 ` Markos Chandras
2009-06-01 15:49 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2009-06-03 10:02 ` Michael Haubenwallner
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