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From: Dmitry Grigoriev <dimgel@××××.ru>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Two-level portage tree is irrelevant.
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:00:38
Message-Id: 4A92B970.5050107@mail.ru
1 Hello everyone.
2
3 I posted an enhacement suggestion to bugzilla and was advised to discuss
4 it here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=282491 (please read with
5 comments).
6
7 The idea is that package tree physical structure must correspond to
8 logical structure. E.g. package kde/games/tactics-and-strategy/knetwalk
9 instead of kde-base/knetwalk, and kde/games/all instead of manually
10 managed meta-package or set @kde-games (kde/all == @kde,
11 kde/games/arcade/all == @kde-games-arcade, ...).
12
13 Jeremy Olexa already answered me in bugzilla that this is not new idea,
14 but I'll submit my suggestion here anyway as a "voice of crowd". :) I'm
15 just home user with about 2 years linux experience, do like gentoo, but
16 with exception of this inconvenience.
17
18 Best regards,
19 Dmitry

Replies

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Two-level portage tree is irrelevant. Andrew D Kirch <trelane@×××××××.net>
[gentoo-dev] Re: Two-level portage tree is irrelevant. Christian Faulhammer <fauli@g.o>