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Hi Brian
> What's the gain, aside from implication of collapsing it into a
> single file? Honestly my only use for metadata.xml is looking up who
> I get to poke about fixing broken ebuilds...
The gain is:
... that you portage people could use it for emerge -s instead of using
a DESCRIPTION-cache.
... we don't need to find the metadata.xml file before parsing it.
... reducing the number of files in the (public) tree.
Danny
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Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project
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