On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 6:22 AM, Wyatt Epp <wyatt....@gmail.com> wrote: > Okay, this has been bothering me....sorry if this is a sort of silly > question, but why not just use the (already extant) metadata.xml for > the...err, metadata about a package? >
That's because package-manager critical information cannot be included in an XML file, purely to prevent the added overhead of having to implement an XML parser inside every package manager. metadata.xml contains information that is relevant to the user and to developers, not to the package manager. -- ~Nirbheek Chauhan
