Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: "Jan Kundrát" <jkt@××××××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: New category proposal
Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 12:46:54
Message-Id: 4285F33F.9080707@flaska.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: New category proposal by Stroller
1 Stroller wrote:
2 >>>> * Unique ID strings for packages, zynot style. Messy as hell though,
3 >>>> DEPEND="foo/bar {12379812AD7382164BD87678652438FC65E43A2}" doesn't have
4 >>>> the same kind of ring to it...
5 [snip]
6 > I'm going to ignore that. This thread started because the current
7 > category/name naming convention causes interesting conditions. I
8 > appreciate that generally Microsoft Are Not Our Favourite Software
9 > Company, but giving them as an example doesn't inherently make unique
10 > IDs bad, and 128-bit ones are not necessary in this case.
11
12 Actually ciaranm's example contained 39 hex digits, which leads to
13 624bit IDs :-).
14
15 -jkt
16
17 --
18 cd /local/pub && more beer > /dev/mouth

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