On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Gilles Dartiguelongue <e...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Having done some debian packaging for work, I find watch files from > debian really helpful. Changing the format to a XML compatible one does > not seem like a hard work so I'll probably leave that up for others to > discuss. > > Since you are proposing this, a side question is: > Why should we write SRC_URI in ebuilds if that info is now available in > metadata.xml ? (granted that we might still want to keep over-riding > this information in ebuilds)
It's not (only) SRC_URI, sometime it's completly different, sometimes <watch> would contain only versionmangle since SRC_URI contains enought informations for euscan... SRC_URI serves a totally different purpose :). -- Corentin Chary http://xf.iksaif.net
