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On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 13:55:40 +0200 |
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Maciej Mrozowski <reavertm@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Friday 24 of June 2011 09:55:19 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> > On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 09:52:03 +0200 |
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> > Jesús J. Guerrero Botella <jesus.guerrero.botella@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > > You might not like it, but Gentoo categories have always been |
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> > > directories, not words into metadata.xml. |
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> > So tags are in some way related to categories then? |
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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 |
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> stuff in app-xemacs mostly) - categories would serve no purpose as id |
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> anymore (though may need to be provided as backward compatibility - |
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> but with symlinks to ebuilds/${PN} inside) |
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And we'll all be doing a lot of ugly ${PN/python-/} and so on. Simplify |
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things, not make harder just because of some wannabe tag fashion. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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