On 23 June 2011 09:46, Zac Medico <[email protected]> wrote: > It could be implemented with a metadata.xml extension, or possibly an > new ebuild variable. A GLEP would be a good way to propose such an > extension.
I'd myself see metadata.xml or ebuild variables, on their own, less than useful. For me, the primary benefit of the category system is it makes it easy to locate and install packages I wish to install, and hidden metadata stored in the package itself would prove very unhelpful in this regard. In order for this metadata to be of any use to a user, it would need to have some way to facilitate its use, whether it be a fake generated directory of symlinks, or a dedicated program ( like debians aptitude ) for exploring this data in a tag-oriented way. ( And any solution which requires software to iterate and index the entirety of portage to accumulate this tag data, user side, will be considerably unfavourable in my eyes ) -- Kent perl -e "print substr( \"edrgmaM SPA NOcomil.ic\\@tfrken\", \$_ * 3, 3 ) for ( 9,8,0,7,1,6,5,4,3,2 );" http://kent-fredric.fox.geek.nz
