On Tuesday, 24. July 2007 14:26, Petteri Räty wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh kirjoitti: > > On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:44:52 +0200 > > > > "Marijn Schouten (hkBst)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Perhaps we should just move DESCRIPTIONs to metadata. That would > >> make it impossible to use ${PV} and more importantly also remove > >> some duplication. > > > > Got to be careful here. In the past it's been stated that Portage > > won't use XML for anything that it has to parse. > > Well here we need to answer the question whether searching > DESCRIPTION strings is a core feature. I have never used emerge > --searchdesc but that might be just me.
I believe it to be a core feature. How else am I to find an rss reader in portage without having any preference or knowledge before installing? Or some random tool to convert X to Y. Often, features are not part of the name. Robert -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list