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From: Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net>
To: Alex Brandt <alunduil@g.o>
Cc: Gentoo Devt <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] shouldn't eselect be in app-eselect ?
Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2015 21:47:33
Message-Id: 20150404214512.GI1077@ca.inter.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] shouldn't eselect be in app-eselect ? by Alex Brandt
1 150404 Alex Brandt wrote:
2 > On Saturday, April 04, 2015 14:41:37 Philip Webb wrote:
3 >> I read the recent thread re the new app-eselect.
4 >> Doing my weekly system update,
5 >> it strikes me that 'eselect' itself sb there too.
6 >> Time to paint the bikesheds again ... (smile)
7 > I don't disagree but will simply point out that if this becomes true,
8 > we should also move dev-lang/python to dev-python,
9 > dev-lang/ruby to dev-ruby & dev-lang/perl to dev-perl (not exhaustive).
10
11 No (and to the other objectors' lists):
12 there are many computer languages, but there is only 1 'eselect'.
13 The eselect set-up is unique within Gentoo,
14 which makes it natural to put it all under 1 category.
15
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Re: [gentoo-dev] shouldn't eselect be in app-eselect ? Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>