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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: "Stipe Tolj" <tolj AT wapme-systems DOT de>
Cc: "Corinna Vinschen" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: no more package moratorium?
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 10:29:58 +1100
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Stipe Tolj" <tolj AT wapme-systems DOT 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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