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On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 6:47 AM, Mart Raudsepp <leio@g.o> wrote: |
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> I agree that a tag kind of approach would be nice. Someone should |
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> actually do work on it. |
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> Here's a random similar idea that I think might work well as a GLEP |
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> proposition, that I was about to reply to a different subthread before |
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> noticing this post: |
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<snip random idea :p> |
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The simplest method I can think of is: |
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${PORTDIR}/tags/games/puzzles/ksudoku -> ../../../kde-base/ksudoku |
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Yes, that's a symlink inside a new root-directory "tags" where "games" |
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is a tag and "puzzles" is a sub-tag. If for some reason we get an |
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explosion in sudoku games in portage (with weird names), we can make a |
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new sub-tag "games/puzzles/sudoku/" |
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${PORTDIR}/tags/games/puzzles/sudoku/ksudoku -> ../../../../kde-base/ksudoku |
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And this won't cause any problems since "higher" tags are inherited. |
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Another usage of tagging could be marking packages as "deprecated" to |
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ease out removal of old packages. |
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${PORTDIR}/tags/dying/amarok -> ../media-sound/amarok |
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/me hides from the amarok lovers. |
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Symlinking has the advantage of being a natural extension of our |
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favourite flat-file db[1] to tagging. Having a new folder instead of |
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symlinking inside other categories has the advantage of being |
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backwards-compatible, and will also prevent an explosion in the number |
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of categories in the root dir. |
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FWIW, git (atleast) preserves symlinks in source trees, so once the |
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move to git is complete, there will be no obstacles left in this |
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thing's implementation ;) |
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1. That's the portage tree, btw :p |
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~Nirbheek Chauhan |
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