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From: Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: New category proposal
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 22:58:09
Message-Id: 8fe26986811f118acbe762e1ba94fb2e@stellar.eclipse.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: New category proposal by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On May 11, 2005, at 8:10 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 >
3 > * Unique ID strings for packages, zynot style. Messy as hell though,
4 > DEPEND="foo/bar {12379812AD7382164BD87678652438FC65E43A2}" doesn't have
5 > the same kind of ring to it...
6
7 Maybe I'm just a messy person, but I really like this. It prevents
8 upstream naming collisions & opens multiple categories per package
9 completely. Mr Harring will hate it, but the rest of us will use
10 `esearch -o "%p\n" "" | grep -e category -e keyword`.
11
12 Stroller.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: New category proposal Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o>