Re: more updates - filelists and more! :)

On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 13:46, Joe Shaw wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 01:34, seth vidal wrote:
> >  - filelists lists package n,e,v,r,a in a comment - I'm of two minds on
> > this - one is - if it's in a comment we're paying the price for it being
> > there in terms of data xfer, why not just specify it too. The second is
> > - eh - don't make people parse it if it is not necessary.
> 
> Eh, I don't really like the comment if we want people to actually use
> it.  Parsers can decide to use it or not.  If we decide on just using
> package ID, then the comment is very useful.

well I was using it mostly just as a way for  a person reading the file
to see what it was talking about - the id would be the programmatic
mechanism for identifying a set of files with the package they belong
to. But then I thought - if we're going to use the space to store that
data, why not make it possible to parse it?


> I thought the package ID was difficult for debian packages, though?

it's just an md5sum - I can't imagine why it would be difficult.

-sv