[packagekit] Removing backends/BACKENDS

Ken VanDine ken at vandine.org
Thu Oct 25 04:52:12 PDT 2007


Removing it would be fine... i think editing that simple html page
isn't hard. and we could have a script to update the site
automagically.

On 10/25/07, James Bowes <jbowes at dangerouslyinc.com> wrote:
> On 10/25/07, Adrien BUSTANY <madcat at mymadcat.com> wrote:
> > Or write a clever cron job to keep them in sync :-) Would be easy to do
> > this with a perl script for example... I don't have any solid argument
> > against modifying the html file, but I think that's cleaner, that way
> > for example we can keep the BACKENDS file in its simple format while we
> > can improve the html page a bit, and keep them in sync.
> > I propose the following solution :
> > 1. Create a copy of pk-faq.html name pk-faq.tmpl
> > 2. In that file remove the copy of the BACKENDS file, and put for
> > example a #BACKENDS keyword
> > 3. The perl script will read the BACKENDS file, format it if we want,
> > and create pk-faq.html from the .tmpl replacing #BACKENDS with the right
> > content
>
> Or some build-time magic. I don't think this is important enough for
> it, however. My vote's for just removing the file.
>
> -James
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