Lars Weiler posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Thu, 09 Jun 2005 15:37:22 +0200:
> * foser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [05/06/09 15:19 +0200]: >> The point is that with his reordering implicit information was lost for >> no particular purpose. > > If you store implicit information in the keywords, then make them > explicit. That involves, find another way to store the data (like in > metadata), or discuss here about another way to store that data in the > keywords. > > Could you give an example about the implicit data you store in the > keywords? So we can think about a solution. Um... I expect foser considered that understood from the thread context. The "implicit data" under discussion is maintainer's arch and to a lessor degree order of arch adoption of the package. Maintainer arch was /traditionally/ listed first, with archs added left to right, so the newest arch added was always to the right. However, as the many arguments and examples in this thread demonstrate, that was never a reliable method for conveying the information in the first place, thus we have the proposal to make it alphabetical ordering, and to put maintainer's arch info in the metadata.xml file. So far, the change seems to be favored. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
