Re: [gentoo-dev] new portage categories

[Donnie Berkholz]

On 15:12 Wed 06 Feb     , Alec Warner wrote:
> On 2/4/08, Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@×××××××××.cc> wrote:
> > On 2/4/08, Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o> wrote:
> > > On 20:11 Mon 04 Feb     , Jonas Bernoulli wrote:
> > > > Thinking about it again I would say tags and categories just fulfill
> > > > different purposes. Tags can not replace categories but might be a
> > > > useful extension to categories for the tasks I described, not more not
> > > > less. They are not better or worse, just different:)
> > >
> > > Why don't you think they can replace categories?
> >
> > Quick answer: Because there are packages with the same name in
> > different categories. How would tags deal with that?
>
> Techincally you could enforce UNIQUE(pkg,[tags]), I agree thats a poor
> constraint though ;)

I would probably print the ambiguous package name, with info on each 
package, and a list of tags unique to each that could be used to specify 
which one you want. Perhaps a numbered list too.

Thanks,
Donnie
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