Re: [pacman-dev] package PKGINFO format vs DB format

On 9/19/07, Miklos Vajna wrote:

On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 12:49:12AM -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote:

...

[ foo = bar baz = blah ]

then

%FOO% bar baz

would become

foo = bar baz

?

won't it result in *very* long lines for the filelists?

Well actually, the current format just repeats. So it'd be: foo = bar foo = baz In a way it makes sense, because, this is a DB entry really... you wouldn't be resetting the variable. But as a programmer it *does* read a little funny.