[OSUNIX-dev] Yet another package format - Feedback wanted

[Fabian Groffen]

On 20-01-2009 12:46:26 +0100, "C. Bergström" wrote:
> However.. both these formats are directly extractable and at a 
> functional level quite similar.
> 
> In terms of accessing the metadata
> 
> xar --dump-toc=foo.xml -f /usr/portage/packages/app-editors/vim-7.2.021.oxe
> 
>  From there it almost becomes semantics since parsing the very small 
> amount of metadata is trivial.  In this case I prefer a tool with 
> built-in support that I can checksum instead of just tagging xpak on the 
> end.  Both have advantages depending how you look at it.

I would make the same conclusion as you just did.


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Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level