-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 13/10/15 05:39 AM, hasufell wrote: > On 10/13/2015 09:51 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote: >> >> that would work too, but dtd provides standardization, and >> avoids duplicating package-wide information (meaning of >> slot/subslot) in every single ebuild. >> > > Yeah, the only thing that I wasn't sure about is the subslots > part. With the proposed patch we don't document a subslot for a > specific slot, but for the whole package. Everything else looked > too complicated/ugly in xml and I'm not sure we even need it. If > someone has a better idea, please speak up. I think it should be > kept simple, because we want devs to fill in this kind of > information, not confuse them. >
Subslots are set to indicate changes from one ebuild to another, that is loosely independent of $PV. I see it as a per-package description, so the way it's been described here in the XML syntax makes a lot of sense. +1 from me for all of it, too. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iF4EAREIAAYFAlYel/UACgkQAJxUfCtlWe1vwQD9EW09+ofh270hbLTakjuXKSA+ ESyphRNg0pjJx6rfJ8gBANglXSYVnOM+eqryldoIlbSVgIHs+zOoBJR4YsZ/eRD6 =RUdR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
