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

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