>>>>> On Mon, 29 Mar 2021, Tim Harder wrote: > Is there any interest these days in developing and maintaining a > separate repo spec [1]? Among other uses, it would help in describing > standardized repo features related to metadata/layout.conf settings > allowing devs to reference a single, canonical source in order to > support repo/profiles features.
> The current spec doesn't define many repo specific features leading to > people jamming all sorts of conditional features in metadata/layout.conf > via profile-formats and other entries, none of which is defined in the > current spec. > Mostly I'm asking because I'm tired of trying to support a pseudo-spec > and am quite close to dropping pkgcore's support for the few > profile-formats features it tries to enable. Why not make it a chapter of PMS? A separate document would presumably imply having a repository API (RAPI?) decoupled from EAPI? Ulrich
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