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From: Maciej Mrozowski <reavertm@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: deprecate /usr/share/doc/$PF
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 17:30:05
Message-Id: 201112271829.09800.reavertm@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: deprecate /usr/share/doc/$PF by Mike Frysinger
1 On Wednesday 21 of December 2011 04:40:09 Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > On Tuesday 20 December 2011 20:44:03 Maciej Mrozowski wrote:
3 > > I still think we should even make PN an unique identifier in order to be
4 > > able to purge categories... that's different story though...
5 >
6 > a world without categories is a *lot* worse than a world with $PN free
7 > collisions
8
9 Yeah.. because?
10 Users of other distros seem to disagree with you however. (no other package
11 manager I know relies on fixed package categories and uses tags to describe
12 package purpose and PN-PV to identify it).
13 But like I said, that's different story, let's not hijack this topic.
14
15 --
16 regards
17 MM

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Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: deprecate /usr/share/doc/$PF Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>