On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 20:01:15 +0200 hasufell <hasuf...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 10/12/2015 07:49 PM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 19:19:33 +0200 > > Julian Ospald <hasuf...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > >> There seems to be some general confusion about specific package > >> SLOTs and their meaning, since there can be several naming schemes > >> applied and documentation is either non-existent or is inside the > >> ebuild via comments. > >> Because of that it should be part of metadata.xml. > > > > > > Why not, but what's the advantage of xmlizing it vs comments in the > > ebuilds? > > > > Because metadata.xml is the place for metadata and has a defined, > verifiable and useful (in terms of actual processing/parsing data) > form. > > Even if you want those things to be in the ebuild, it would definitely > not be comments, but actual syntax (like exheres). > > So basically the same arguments for not having random comments for USE > flags in the ebuilds apply. > makes sense *clicks like*
