From: "Robert Collins" <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au>
To: "Stipe Tolj" <tolj@wapme-systems.de>
Cc: "Corinna Vinschen" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: no more package moratorium?
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 08:26:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <06fc01c16e2d$7169d730$0200a8c0@lifelesswks> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BF44EFA.E5ABCA5B@wapme-systems.de>
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stipe Tolj" <tolj@wapme-systems.de>
>
> why? if the metadata is held in a database and all setup.hints are
> generated out of it we have no problems about consistence?!
We've had that - setup.ini was the database, and updating was a PITA,
because it couldn't be easily distributed. Setup.hint allows the
metadata to be altered by the maintainer - without needing a central
repository.
Also, federating a database is _hard_. Federating package metadata by
associating it with the packages is trivial.
I've no objection to you generating a database from the package
metadata, but it *must* be that way around.
Rob
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-15 23:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-02 12:06 Gareth Pearce
2001-11-02 12:19 ` Robert Collins
2001-11-11 8:26 ` Corinna Vinschen
2001-11-11 8:26 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2001-11-11 8:26 ` Markus Hoenicka
2001-11-11 8:26 ` Stipe Tolj
2001-11-11 8:26 ` Charles Wilson
2001-11-11 8:26 ` Christopher Faylor
2001-11-11 8:26 ` Stipe Tolj
2001-11-11 8:26 ` Robert Collins
2001-11-11 8:26 ` Stipe Tolj
2001-11-11 8:26 ` Robert Collins [this message]
2001-11-11 8:26 ` Stipe Tolj
2001-11-11 8:26 ` Robert Collins
2001-11-11 8:26 ` Christopher Faylor
2001-11-11 8:26 ` Stipe Tolj
[not found] ` <m3k7wr50fa.fsf@appel.lilypond.org>
2001-11-11 8:26 ` tetex-beta nitpicking [WAS: Re: no more package moratorium?] Markus Hoenicka
2001-11-11 8:26 ` Charles Wilson
2001-11-11 8:26 ` Markus Hoenicka
2001-11-11 8:26 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2001-11-11 8:26 ` Robert Collins
2001-11-11 8:26 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2001-11-11 8:26 ` Charles Wilson
2001-11-11 8:26 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2001-11-11 8:26 ` Markus Hoenicka
2001-11-11 8:26 ` Robert Collins
2001-11-11 8:26 ` Markus Hoenicka
2001-11-11 8:26 ` Jerome BENOIT
2001-11-11 8:26 ` Robert Collins
2001-11-11 8:26 ` no more package moratorium? Robert Collins
2001-11-11 8:26 ` Christopher Faylor
2001-11-11 8:26 ` Stipe Tolj
2001-11-11 8:26 ` Robert Collins
2001-11-11 8:26 ` Jesper Eskilson
2001-11-11 8:26 ` Christopher Faylor
2001-11-11 8:26 ` Stipe Tolj
2001-11-11 8:26 ` Stipe Tolj
2001-11-11 8:26 ` Robert Collins
2001-11-11 8:26 ` Robert Collins
2001-11-11 8:26 ` Gareth Pearce
2001-11-11 8:26 E
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