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Re: clisp is in section misc?


On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 06:55:59AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> >Add a section to setup.ini that doesn't conflict with the parser logic
> >for:
> >RPM database files (future planning)
> >apt Releases
> >apt Sources
> >apt Packages
> >
> >that provides the metadata on categories.
> >
> >i.e.
> >section-details: Net
> >Visible-Name: Net
> >Aliases: Networking
> >Description: "Packages in this section are primary for, and contain
> >extensive network related functionality. Look here to find netcat, but
> >not to find XFree86".
>
> I agree that this seems like a better way to go to me.  Keeping
> everything in one file makes sense, even if there is a categories.ini
> file on sources.redhat.com that gets pulled into setup.ini.
>
> cgf

Yup.  I didn't think of that.  This also means that all that'll have to be
extended is the INI parser in setup (inilex.l and iniparse.y, IIRC).
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