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On 11/1/2014 2:20 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> However, I wonder if it wouldn't make more sense
> to create one file which includes all of the other bits of port
> infrastructure.  This should be a text format that people can read
> easily and manipulate with a text editor or standard unix tools.
> Something like UCL might be a good choice.

That sounds dangerously close to reinventing SRPM.