Re: Please don't remove size info from pkgs.
Yann Dirson writes:
> > Let's embrace open standards and open-ended architectures as deeply as we
> > can.
>
> Yep, I didn't think of that, but it's much nicer.
But OTOH, using SGML or XML will probably take more disk-space than
would be strictly necessary. Colon-separated data files are not
really standardized as such, but are widespread enough (passwd, group,
maybe others) to be a reasonable alternative, where the power of SGML
is really not needed.
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