New repository configuration ponderings

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 20:17 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 18:20 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 17:33 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> > > I've been thinking about improving the repository configuration and
> > > related things for a while now. Just yesterday I realized we could
> > > easily use the existing main configuration system for this, instead of
> > > inventing yet-another-file-format and parser for it. 
> > 
> > Well, nice proposal, but ...
> > 
> > ... wouldn't an xml config file format be more suitable?
> 
> I *hate* XML configuration files from user POV.


If xml is suitable for something, then it's parsing config files.

It avoids all the kind of semifunctional implementation nonsense apt's
and yum's config currently carries around, and would dramatically
simplify the syntax and a parser's implementation.

But given your attitude, I withdraw my comment above. All your proposal
does is adding yet another source of errors and of incompatibilities.

Ralf