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Re: no more package moratorium?
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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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