[Rpm-metadata] more updates - filelists and more! :)
Joe Shaw
joe at ximian.com
Mon Oct 27 18:46:28 UTC 2003
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.
I thought the package ID was difficult for debian packages, though?
Joe
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