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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] feature plans from over here....
From: |
Phil Frost |
Subject: |
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] feature plans from over here.... |
Date: |
Tue, 17 Aug 2004 14:44:54 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i |
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 11:41:51AM -0700, Tom Lord wrote:
>
>
> I'm announcing that I (and my compatriots) intend to somewhat heavily
> hack everything in arch that relates to ~/.arch-params.
>
> We plan to:
>
> [do neat stuff ...]
>
>
> There's more than what I've listed above but that should give the
> general flavor.
>
> Objections, ideas, etc.?
>
> This work will, I believe, begin to:
>
> ~ build-in to tla the core functionality of a super-mirror
>
> ~ simplify the new-user experience when joining a new arch-using
> project (just merge in the official ~/.arch-params of the
> upstream project)
>
> ~ simplify being a "site maintainer" for a large collection
> of arch archives (both master and mirror)
One thing that would be especially useful is to have a set of platform
specific ~/.arch-params/hook.