Robert Buchholz wrote: > The consumers of the PackageMap will always only use the central > database.
I'm not sure about that. I rather assume it will happen. Especially use ignoring the substitution map. > I am convinced the project will be more viable if people can choose > their level of contribution. Many developers just won't care enough to > take the extra hassle. Agreed. However, I don't see a huge difference in level of extra hassle. The most difficult thing is doing who's-the-vendor research in my eyes atm which is the same at both ends. Maybe collaborating at a central place can add some fun that adding "some field I don't really care about" downstream cannot. Btw on Gentoo putting it in metadata.xml might be adding to the risk of a checksum mismatch, at least for extra edits. No idea if QA tools will catch 90% of that happening. > If you make merging easy, I don't see how this hurts the project. I don't see how easy merging compensates for the issues I brought up. Can I have a few more voices on this?: Would you clearly feel more comfortable and motivated to contribute to PackageMap if it works at your distro's source package? Sebastian
