Re: [gentoo-dev] Categories

[Rolf Veen]

Paul de Vrieze wrote:

> Unfortunately CVS does not work well with symlinks, so this is not
> really an option.

Not unavoidable. Let a script and a descriptor combination
reconstruct the whole hierarchy, i.e., ebuild the categories.
Starting from a descriptor in XML (for example), you could ebuild
a symlink hierarchy, or you could choose other backends too, such
as a database (in a distant future).

Or you could even include categories in each ebuild descriptor. Each
package says to which categories it belongs.

> Flat namespaces are actually slower in machine interaction. There are
> allready very many packages in portage currently. Thousands of
> entries in a directory is NOT fun to look at, or to search for a
> computer (albeight doable).

Examples of what I'm proposing are Sourceforge and Freshmeat. Both
use flat namespaces, and on top of that a search engine and a complex
category structure. And they manage a lot of entries ! Sourceforge
solves the directory problem in the form /g/ge/gentoo; that can be
handled transparently by the tools.

Cheers / Groeten.
Rolf.


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