Hello Danny > 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.
Sounds good for me, it would also save some inodes and blocks on the hard drive. Implementing the compilation should be easy using XSLT. Greets, Michael -- Gentoo Linux Developer using m0n0wall | http://hansmi.ch/
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