On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 01:01:56PM +0200, Simon Stelling wrote: > > I would like to propose the following changes: > > Let's keep the metadata.xml in each package's directory in _CVS only_. > > Don't propagate them via rsync. Instead, use a script to compile all > > metadata.xml files into one central (XML) file. (This would probably > > need slight changes to the DTD). This file would then be placed into > > gentoo-portage/metadata/ and Portage,devs and users could easily parse it. > > Sounds good, if your script validates the per-package metadata.xml > before transform it to the global one. It'd really suck if a single > missing '>' could screw the whole tree's metadata. This shouldn't be a > problem, especially if you transform the information with XSLT. > > I definitively like the idea, it should speed up emerge -s enormously Unlikely... stable portage knows of metadata.xml *explicitly* in two places, repoman's commit code, and digest checking, neither of which come into play for an emerge -s. You'll remove one entry from the listdir returns for a package directory, per package directory, bout it.
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... ~harring
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