On Friday, June 22, 2012 at 6:20 AM, David Cournapeau wrote:

If by manifest you mean the build manifest, then that's not desirable:
the manifest contains the explicit filenames, and those are
platform/environment specific. You don't want this to be user-facing.

It appears I misunderstood the files that bento uses then ;) It is late (well early now)

and I have not used bento extensively.

What I suggest mirrors RPM's similarly except the build step (when there is indeed a

build step) is handled by a python script included in the package by the author of said

package.