metadata future enhancement
Toshio <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.rpm.metadata |
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Something I think belongs in the metadata level is patch packages. I'm not as big a proponent of patch packages as I was in 1998 when I was stuck behind a 28K modem though, so I'm not pushing this as a "I think it belongs in metadata now" just that if someone starts hosting patch packages it needs to be integrated at the metadata level so my package tool can automatically find what patch packages are available from the repository metadata, compare them to my cache of local packages, and choose to download accordingly. I don't know of any distribution except SuSE that has a patch package repository yet, though. So I don't know if this belongs on the radar yet or if it's a "think on it and wait until someone needs the it" feature. -Toshio -- Toshio <[email protected]>