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GLEP: 5
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Title: Extending metadata.xml
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Version: $Revision: 1.2 $
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Last-Modified: $Date: 2003/07/03 05:38:42 $
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Author: Heinrich Wendel <sysop@heinospage.de>,
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Status: deferred
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Type: Standards Track
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Content-Type: text/x-rst
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Created: 02-Jul-2003
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Post-History: 02-Jul-2003, 11-Nov-2004
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Abstract
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As the latest development in Gentoo and Portage added the metadata.xml file
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to each package, which provides information about the package and it's
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maintainers, this GLEP proposes to extend this format in order to simplify
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the .ebuild format.
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Status
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Timed out
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Motivation
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The metadata.xml [1]_ standard was accepted and it already contains some
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information about the packages (longdescription).
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Specification
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Add the tags <description> <homepage> <license> to the metadata.xml [1]_ and
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remove them from the .ebuild files. All ebuilds and the emerge -S feature
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have to be changed to use the new format.
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Rationale
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The three tags description, homepage and license are mostly the same in all
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versions of an ebuild, but they must be added to each version. In order to
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simplify the .ebuild format they can be moved to the new metadata.xml [1]_ file.
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This would also allow different descriptions for different languages (lang
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attribute) and there are no problems when a programm changes it license
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(restrict attribute).
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Backwards Compatibility
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As it will take some time to do the changes on every ebuild, portage should still
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support the old format for some time.
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Reference Implementation
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not yet ...
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References
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.. [1] Gentoo Herds Project
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[http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/metastructure/herds/#doc_chap2]
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Copyright
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This document has been placed in the public domain.
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