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On Monday 08 November 2004 05:31, Ed Grimm wrote: |
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> On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, Carsten Lohrke wrote: |
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> > On Sunday 07 November 2004 22:39, Stuart Herbert wrote: |
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> >> If Portage supporting arbitrary-depth category trees, then we could |
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> >> organise things a lot easier. But until that happens, devs are |
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> >> going to have to accept the need for more directories in |
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> >> /usr/portage. |
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> > I don't think an arbitrary depths would be so helpful. Most likely |
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> > it'd slowdown portage. How about flatten the whole beast!? The |
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> > categorization hasn't to be done via directories. |
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> Whyever would flat-tree be better than arbitrary-depth? |
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> When I started being more dilligent about reading the gentoo mailing |
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> lists, I saw a number of threads on the topic of adding sub-categories, |
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> and the only consistent reason that was given for not moving forward |
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> was, "we need to benchmark that." |
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I don't say that I don't like this idea, but we will undoubtedly encounter |
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all kinds of bugs caused by tools/utilities that make assumptions about |
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category depth. |
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Paul |
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ps. arbitrary depth should start with 1, not 0 |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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