From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j59G3cjM002753 for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 16:03:38 GMT Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DgPW6-0007kv-Vn for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 09 Jun 2005 16:04:27 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1DgPOA-0002HC-9S for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Thu, 09 Jun 2005 17:56:14 +0200 Received: from ip68-230-66-193.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.230.66.193]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 09 Jun 2005 17:56:14 +0200 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-230-66-193.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 09 Jun 2005 17:56:14 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: ekeyword and ordering Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 08:59:25 -0700 Organization: Sometimes Message-ID: References: <20050606222623.GI9084@kaf.zko.hp.com> <200506061841.11356.vapier@gentoo.org> <42A4D308.9030104@gentoo.org> <42A59038.4060108@gentoo.org> <42A60A72.10200@gentoo.org> <1118323176.29369.26.camel@rivendell> <20050609133722.GN10291@celeborn.wh-og.hs-niederrhein.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-230-66-193.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 65ee7763-5611-4323-a6fa-d2ad2cc13857 X-Archives-Hash: 3cc98c97af6c9c5035c3333e15f45259 Lars Weiler posted <20050609133722.GN10291@celeborn.wh-og.hs-niederrhein.de>, excerpted below, on Thu, 09 Jun 2005 15:37:22 +0200: > * foser [05/06/09 15:19 +0200]: >> The point is that with his reordering implicit information was lost for >> no particular purpose. > > If you store implicit information in the keywords, then make them > explicit. That involves, find another way to store the data (like in > metadata), or discuss here about another way to store that data in the > keywords. > > Could you give an example about the implicit data you store in the > keywords? So we can think about a solution. Um... I expect foser considered that understood from the thread context. The "implicit data" under discussion is maintainer's arch and to a lessor degree order of arch adoption of the package. Maintainer arch was /traditionally/ listed first, with archs added left to right, so the newest arch added was always to the right. However, as the many arguments and examples in this thread demonstrate, that was never a reliable method for conveying the information in the first place, thus we have the proposal to make it alphabetical ordering, and to put maintainer's arch info in the metadata.xml file. So far, the change seems to be favored. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list