On Monday 07 February 2005 12:48, Fabian Zeindl wrote: > And one last n00b-question: What or who reads metadata.xml? What is it > for?
The main purpose of metadata is for gentoo management purposes. It allows easy identification of who maintaines a certain package. In the original specification there were more items in it, but these were removed because of controversy on their use(fullness). A part of the problem is that the portage people don't feel like adding xml support to portage. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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