[Rpm-maint] RPM 4.9.0 alpha available
Panu Matilainen
pmatilai at redhat.com
Wed Dec 1 11:01:35 UTC 2010
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Michael Schroeder (mls at suse.de) said:
> > As we're doing a major release, what are your thoughts on the
> > following features:
>
> My pet idea is an informational tag is a tag that defines a package
> as either multilib or not-multilib, for use by distribution compose
> tools for packages to potentially opt-in or opt-out of whatever
> heuristics that such tools use.
Having looked at mash source yesterday, it's pretty easy to see where this
wish comes from :)
Just wondering whether multilib should really have its own tag, or would
this need be better served with a more general purpose tag, perhaps just
an informational string array tag where distros can stuff whatever
keywords they want for their compose tools and such?
- Panu -
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