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2011/6/27 Jesús J. Guerrero Botella <jesus.guerrero.botella@×××××.com>: |
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> That still doesn't answer my question anyway: both features (symlinks |
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> and +65k files on a single dir) are incompatible with fat32. And |
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> someone said fat32 compatibility is a feature we want (still can't |
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> guess why, but well, be consequent...). Obviously, we want fat32 |
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> compatibility when it comes to arguing against symlinks, which have |
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> always been with us by the way, but that's not important when we talk |
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> about other things that are not compatible with fat32. |
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I'm not sure where you're getting 65k files. Unless I misinterpreted |
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everything everyone else was saying, every package would still have |
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its own directory. There are fewer than 20k even with a bunch of |
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overlays installed. Regardless, you might check the other (other) |
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thread; I think we're probably going to go quick and |
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not-necessarily-dirty with sets to get 99% of what we're looking for |
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almost trivially. |
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2011/6/27 Jesús J. Guerrero Botella <jesus.guerrero.botella@×××××.com>: |
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> C) "ls $PORTDIR/whatever-category" is a command that's way simpler |
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> than the one you posted. |
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It's also fundamentally broken because one package can only be in one |
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category and their expansion has not historically been speedy. Tags |
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are a non-exclusive one-to-many relationship. So a package can have |
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as many tags as it needs, and users will be able to leverage tags |
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alone or in combinations to find things they want or need. |
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> I don't even use tags for my music collections |
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That's very curious, and I wouldn't mind talking about why that is |
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off-list (not quite joking; that's really interesting). |
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So to sum it up, we're fixing package navigation and discovery because |
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Gentoo is about choice. Even 15,000 packages is too many to have to |
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play "guess the category", and it's cruel to expect users (including |
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ourselves) to know everything in the tree at all times. It's in all |
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our best interest to make it easy to know what choices are available |
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so we can get back to more important things. Tags help further this |
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ideal. |
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