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Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 00:32:51 +0100
From: Stipe Tolj <tolj AT wapme-systems DOT de>
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> 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.

I agree, that's why I mentioned in the file conflict thread:

The package maintaining system should provide _mechanisms_ to support
the package maintainers.

It would be easy to allow package maintainers (via HTTP basic
authentification and underlying PHP application) to update the
relevant information in the database.

This is how my intension from the package maintaining module looks
like.
 
> Also, federating a database is _hard_. Federating package metadata by
> associating it with the packages is trivial.

It depends on the design of the database and the access mechanisms,
IMO.

Stipe

tolj AT wapme-systems DOT de
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