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On 25 June 2011 23:55, Maciej Mrozowski <reavertm@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> IMHO the best approach is to forget about categories and: |
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> - make package names unique identifiers (it's not that hard, renaming stuff in |
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> app-xemacs mostly) - categories would serve no purpose as id anymore (though |
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> may need to be provided as backward compatibility - but with symlinks to |
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> ebuilds/${PN} inside) |
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I think something else that may be important to consider if one is |
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eliminating category directories is how we'll replace the utility |
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currently provided by category/metadata.xml |
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Some things are simply grossly impractical to maintain individual |
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metadata.xml for reliably due to volume ( ie: dev-perl/* , last I |
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looked, the metadata.xml in there presently is largely copy-pasted |
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between dists ) |
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Perhaps we need a new way to apply metadata to a whole host of packages? |
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Also, categories have extra use for simple convenience of their native |
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groupings, ie: I've been known to set USE flags/KEYWORDS that apply to |
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an entire category. Trying to make useflags apply to all packages |
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with a given tagset would be comparatively messy. |
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categories also make it easy to do Naïve iteration of packages |
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efficiently, ie: for the most part, if you want to iterate all |
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perl-modules, you just need to iterate dev-perl and perl-core , and |
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that is all, you're not bogged down by stepping into all the other |
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categories, loading all their files and working out whether or not |
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they're perl related. ( Yes, I am aware this has its own caveats, but |
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if you know of these caveats and they're acceptable to your task, then |
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its fine ) |
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the 'virtuals' category also is a bundle of fun. I really do not want |
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to see virtuals identified only by whatever their unique-idenitifier |
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might be and the tag 'virtual'. Yuck. |
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Kent |
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perl -e "print substr( \"edrgmaM SPA NOcomil.ic\\@tfrken\", \$_ * 3, |
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3 ) for ( 9,8,0,7,1,6,5,4,3,2 );" |
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