On Fri, 27 May 2005 13:47:37 +0200 Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > 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... | The gain is: | ... that you portage people could use it for emerge -s instead of | using | a DESCRIPTION-cache.
Eww! emerge having to parse XML? Bad! Bad! Bad! If you want a search tool, install one. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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