From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jul 9 9:40: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79A6537B401 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 09:40:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from felix.automagic.org (felix.automagic.org [204.152.186.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 98C0743E31 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 09:40:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jabley@automagic.org) Received: (qmail 10625 invoked by uid 0); 9 Jul 2002 16:40:00 -0000 Received: from localhost.automagic.org (HELO hyperion) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.automagic.org with SMTP; 9 Jul 2002 16:40:00 -0000 Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 12:40:02 -0400 Subject: Re: Package system flaws? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v482) Cc: Wes Peters , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Doug Barton , Dan Moschuk , arch@FreeBSD.org To: Terry Lambert From: Joe Abley In-Reply-To: <3D2A45BC.75556D69@mindspring.com> Message-Id: <83FD8E1F-935A-11D6-B320-00039312C852@automagic.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.482) Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, July 8, 2002, at 10:09 , Terry Lambert wrote: > Wes Peters wrote: >> The more you write, the more I see XML as being terribly appropriate >> for the package metadata. Consider the nesting problem; XML handles >> this with complete grace if you write it into the DTD that a package >> can contain a package. > > XML would be good, if you didn't have to have 90M of crap in order > to parse it. felix# ls -al /usr/local/lib/libxml.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 399096 Jul 9 09:39 /usr/local/lib/libxml.a felix# To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message