On Tue, 15 Dec 2015 09:19:36 -0500 Mike Frysinger <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 15 Dec 2015 07:28, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > >>>>> On Tue, 15 Dec 2015, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > > > On 14 Dec 2015 21:22, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > >> The spec seems incomplete. I cannot find a description of the user and > > >> group files' format. (But in fact, there is a standard format which > > >> suggests itself, namely that of the passwd(5) and group(5) files.) > > > > > i recall going with xml at the time, but i can't find reference to it. > > > > So the package manager would have to parse XML? We have tried to avoid > > that, so far. > > not entirely accurate considering we have metadata.xml Not entirely accurate considering the contents of metadata.xml are not necessary to build and install packages. -- Best regards, Michał Górny <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>
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