Re: standard apt/yum meta-data format
On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 12:52:16PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> I've been watching the fedora community, and it looks like an XML based
> index format is being proposed by the yum developers.
>
> What is the debian project's perspective on this? Is it likely the new
> format will be adopted, or is that going to be left for apt-rpm?
The RFC822-based Packages format is used all over the place in Debian,
works well, is extremely simple to parse, and is likely to be more
compact than XML. Why would we want to switch, and why do the yum
developers prefer a more bloated and complex format?
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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