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Danny van Dyk wrote:
> On the other hand, if you want to search for a package name via
> metadata, you have to traverse the whole tree. Quite unhandy if done w/o
> a cache and not yet implemented AFAIK.
herdstat can do this. ciaranm poked me the other day to see if I could
implement a cache for it (which I mostly finished last night), so hopefully
that'll be in a release soon.
>
> I would like to propose the following changes:
> Let's keep the metadata.xml in each package's directory in _CVS only_.
> Don't propagate them via rsync. Instead, use a script to compile all
> metadata.xml files into one central (XML) file. (This would probably
> need slight changes to the DTD). This file would then be placed into
> gentoo-portage/metadata/ and Portage,devs and users could easily parse it.
>
> TIA for any feedback on this!
>
> PS: Ciaran: Leave me alive please ;-)
> PPS: Yes, I'd volounteer to write that compilation script.
I think it's a good idea. Regarding the compilation script, there's
already-written code in herdstat that could handle this, but most likely that's
not an option (I can hear the "C++ sucks" flames already ;p).
Cheers
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