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On Tuesday 27 December 2011 12:29:09 Maciej Mrozowski wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 21 of December 2011 04:40:09 Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> > On Tuesday 20 December 2011 20:44:03 Maciej Mrozowski wrote: |
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> > > I still think we should even make PN an unique identifier in order to |
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> > > be able to purge categories... that's different story though... |
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> > a world without categories is a *lot* worse than a world with $PN free |
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> > collisions |
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> Yeah.. because? |
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> Users of other distros seem to disagree with you however. (no other package |
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> manager I know relies on fixed package categories and uses tags to describe |
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> package purpose and PN-PV to identify it). |
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the fact that other distros are working based on their restrictions does not |
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mean they enjoy it. flat listing package names hits collisions in the $PN |
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which $CATEGORY has for the most part made a non-issue whereas other distros |
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arbitrarily mangle the name. it also makes organization a lot cleaner. i've |
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used other distros and their flat lists and makes finding stuff harder (obviously |
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imo). |
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> But like I said, that's different story, let's not hijack this topic. |
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you can't open the door and shut it in the same breath :P |
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-mike |
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