Build system ideas/requirements

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 16:52 +0100, Enrico Scholz wrote:
> skvidal at phy.duke.edu (seth vidal) writes:
> 
> >> > I'm not talking about using the distro provided comps.xml - I'm
> >> > talking about using that format for specifying the packages
> >> > installed in the chroots.
> >> 
> >> What would be the advantage of this? You will have to maintain yet
> >> another configuration file with an ugly format (XML), and it will not
> >> work with other depsolvers like apt or smartpm.
> >
> > Right, I'm having trouble trying to figure out why we're bothering with
> > support for other depsolvers at this time. We just need to build now.
> 
> When we want to build now, I do not understand why code for new
> technology (comps.xml) shall be added, while existing technology
> (manual package-lists) is already working...
> 
> 

comps.xml isn't new technology. All the support is there. No waiting.
Zero-day.

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