Repository feature proposal
Tom Diehl
tdiehl at rogueind.com
Sun Oct 19 18:04:37 UTC 2003
On Sun, 19 Oct 2003, seth vidal wrote:
>
> > Really the on-disk format should be an xml file per repository in a
> > foo.d directory that is scanned by the package manager on startup.
> >
> > Life is so much easier when you don't have to share a single file.
>
> There is work going on in the development branch of yum to allow for a
> dir like this. We're using configparser format instead of xml b/c it
> makes the config files very easy for humans to grok, I have a few
> problems using xml for a config file that people need to edit b/c I've
> found xml config files tend to confuse users. xml for data that a
> program has to use/parse is excellent but while xml IS human editable
> it's not always trivially so.
+ 10!!
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