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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Moving HOMEPAGE out of ebuilds for the
From: Jan Kundrát <jkt () gentoo ! org>
Date: 2008-11-30 23:37:55
Message-ID: 493323D3.8080500 () gentoo ! org
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Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> - no need to replicate homepage data between versions; even though forks
> can change homepage, I would expect that to at worse split in two a
> package, or have to be different by slot, like Java;
But also the need to replicate http://www.kde.org/ to metadata.xml of
all KDE split ebuilds -- right now, this is set by an eclass.
> - allows proper handling of packages lacking a HOMEPAGE;
Could you elaborate a bit about how different is handling of an
empty/uninitialized shell variable from an empty XML element?
> - less data in metadata cache;
Isn't it in the cache for some reason? Really, I'm just asking.
> - users can check the metadata much more easily by just opening the xml
> file or interfacing to that rather than having to skim through the
> ebuild, the xml files are probably more user readable then ebuilds
> using multiple eclasses;
Haven't we already agreed that accessing ebuilds/... directly is broken
by design?
> - webapps like packages.gentoo.org would be able to display basic
> information without having to parse the ebuilds or the metadata cache.
Except for the ebuilds which still use the old format (that is 100% of
the tree right now)
Cheers,
-jkt
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