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Georgi Georgiev wrote: |
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> Would it be inappropriate to start bitching (again) about a flat tree |
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> where each package can go in multiple categories? |
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So now, that I've read all messages in this thread, I needed a point to |
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start at.. |
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I guess my approach isn't a way to go, but I can't find the reason for |
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it being bad, so: |
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Why not just create a symlink to the package in the category it *also* |
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should be in? |
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For example, net-mail/mutt could be a symlink to ../mail-client/mutt, |
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allowing to find it in both categories. |
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Ok, portage would have to do extra work, as it would have to check |
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wether a package is a symlink or not, ignore "symlink-packages" when it |
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comes to ambiguous naming, count them as already installed if the |
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package it points to is already installed and so on... |
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quite some work, but from my point of view less than some other solutions. |
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So I hope you understand what I mean, you may now hang me for this |
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proposal, but if you do please tell me why it is not a good way to allow |
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multiple categories per package ;-) |
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Greetings, |
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David |
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