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Package JSON manifest should support generic attributes #385

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I like the idea of the JSON manifest format -- it allows us to create backends for a generic packaging frontends.

I would like to adopt this for pkg_rpm at some point, but in order to do this, the manifest would need to support a generic "attributes" format to support file tags (like %config). This will also be needed for supporting packages in Windows.

So, instead of separate mode, user, and group fields, perhaps we should have an attributes object that can contain arbitrary information, mirroring pkg_attributes in the pkg_filegroup framework?

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