On Monday 07 February 2005 14:33, Fabian Zeindl wrote: > > 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. > > So, going back to our USE Flag description discussion, it would be the > best way to add description what useflags do in the ebuilds? > I don't wan't to start any flamewars about that, but I think that it > would be adding much value to portage, if i'd knew what a specific use > flag does to a package. > Can anyone of the portage-devs take position to that, plz? :-)
I would be happy to add it to metadata.xml. I think it would be easier to do so, and the tools might come with the possibility. Direct portage support is not needed. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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