On Monday 29 May 2006 23:29, Mike Kelly wrote: > In particular, I know that at one point there was a push for the user > info files to be XML
not really, it was just an idea i had at the time ... ive been over it a few times since with the portage guys and it makes no real sense to do it in xml also, current GLEP 27 should say nothing of xml > , but I think it may be easier to implement them as > simple shell variable files (like /etc/conf.d/*), using shell variables just leads to quoting problems > since my plan was to > write the core of the implementation in shell (e.g. as an eclass). i fail to see where eclasses play any role in the scheme of things the point of having all the logic in portage is that ebuilds need not care about anything > My proposal is available at: > <http://www.pioto.org/~pioto/gentoo/soc2006/glep27-proposal.txt>. Any > feedback would be appreciated; I wanna get things started on the right > foot. we shouldnt give a way to add extra custom options since we're back to square one in terms of portability (useradd is only used on GNU systems, not Darwin/BSD) the current format last time i bugged the portage peeps was simple: key: value -mike
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