On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:23:48 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò) wrote: > This makes it easier to get the package's homepage for submitting bugs > upstream (you just do a single lookup for the metadata.xml file rather > than checking the ebuild
...or you have a tool that uses the package manager API to show you the homepage of the package in the current directory. I've attached a small script that'll do that for you -- much easier than trying to dig your way through an XML file. > It also makes searching by homepage easier (a search program would > take much less time to parse XML that an ebuild). Search programs don't parse ebuilds. They parse the metadata cache, which is an awful lot easier to parse than XML. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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