-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi @ all,
I'd like to have some feedback on an idea that stuck to my mind for some time already: Currently, we (should) have one metadata.xml file per package (8635 in the whole tree). This is quite handy if you want to look up information about a package you know by name. On the other hand, if you want to search for a package name via metadata, you have to traverse the whole tree. Quite unhandy if done w/o a cache and not yet implemented AFAIK. I would like to propose the following changes: Let's keep the metadata.xml in each package's directory in _CVS only_. Don't propagate them via rsync. Instead, use a script to compile all metadata.xml files into one central (XML) file. (This would probably need slight changes to the DTD). This file would then be placed into gentoo-portage/metadata/ and Portage,devs and users could easily parse it. TIA for any feedback on this! PS: Ciaran: Leave me alive please ;-) PPS: Yes, I'd volounteer to write that compilation script. Danny - -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFClviVaVNL8NrtU6IRAs8zAJ0UIS5jnBT+V+w6P+403ebW0TE15gCfTIsJ 4GWNpxCkRgQrbPrpEHtzLBE= =Ul1J -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
