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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