Re: [Gnu-arch-users] feature plans from over here....

[Phil Frost]

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.