[pacman-dev] package PKGINFO format vs DB format

[Aaron Griffin]

On 9/19/07, Miklos Vajna <vmiklos at frugalware.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 12:49:12AM -0500, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> 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.