From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25442 invoked from network); 28 Nov 2004 17:32:32 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 28 Nov 2004 17:32:32 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1CYSuW-0004O5-Bx for arch-gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 17:32:32 +0000 Received: (qmail 28072 invoked by uid 89); 28 Nov 2004 17:32:31 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-portage-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail Reply-To: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 19211 invoked from network); 28 Nov 2004 17:32:30 +0000 Message-ID: <41AA0B88.3070409@gentoo.org> Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 11:31:52 -0600 From: Andrew Gaffney User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041114) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <9ef20ef3041127151046107fb5@mail.gmail.com> <41A91266.5080804@gentoo.org> <9ef20ef3041128090844573b74@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9ef20ef3041128090844573b74@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Current portage well designed, but badly used X-Archives-Salt: c57893a1-60e9-49e8-92df-a165b8c9f2be X-Archives-Hash: c9b4ae4d38e29dbf734b10a70b571565 Gustavo Barbieri wrote: > Talking about metadata, why does HOMEPAGE and DESCRIPTION are in > ebuilds and not in metadata.xml, IMHO they're not used to build the > package in any way. Maybe if we move those (always filled) > information to metadata.xml, people would fill other fields there. HOMEPAGE and DESCRIPTION have been in ebuilds for a *long* time where metadata.xml is a fairly recent addition. > Also, you said that this is irrelevant to the portage application, but > to the portage tree. Where can I talk to portage tree maintainers? If > I need to patch the entire portage with metadata.xml and stuff like > that, it will be an huge work, but if portage maintainers ask the > package maintainers to do it for next releases, many people would do > small jobs, easier than small group doing many jobs. Almost every dev is a portage tree maintainer. There is no master tree authority that all ebuilds must pass through before hitting the tree. -- Andrew Gaffney Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project -- gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org mailing list