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Joe Peterson wrote:
> Donnie Berkholz wrote:
>> I meant moves were largely pointless, although categories are to a 
>> lesser extent. Tags would be a lot better, since nothing can be 
>> categorized perfectly into a single place.
> 
> Yes, I can see the benefit of a tag paradigm.  I, myself, find it more
> trouble than benefit to have the extra directory level.  I often do "cd
> /usr/portage/*/foo" to get to the foo package, and it often gets a hit
> in licenses or elsewhere that trips up this practice...
> 
>> I don't think it's worth losing track of the CVS history just so we can 
>> have something in a different place that ultimately is hardly useful to 
>> anyone.
> 
> Ah yes, CVS would present a problem here.  I suppose if/when the whole
> tree is converted to svn, at that point moves would be more practical.

I suppose you mean git. Since it tracks content and not files, moves are
trivial. Git actually finds your moves for you, after you've moved content
around; such as when doing a bump.

> Too bad, though, that this has become a barrier to the ability to change
> a category easily and without losing the history.
> 
> 						-Joe

Marijn

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