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Stuart Herbert skrev: |
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> On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 20:30 +0100, Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo) wrote: |
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>> Personally I think unless there is a real problem that needs to be |
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>> resolved, moving packages around should be avoided. |
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> It's a shame we can't find a way to turn package categories into solely |
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> a presentational feature, rather than being an integral part of the |
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> package's identity as it is today. (And, at the same time, multi-depth |
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> categories would also be nice :) |
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> With the way things are today, "improvements" to the structure of the |
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> package tree are held back by our historical legacy. As the tree grows, |
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> it makes sense to move packages into new groups that weren't viable |
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> before - and to clear out historical dumping grounds in the process. |
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> If package categories were only something that users used to find things |
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> - and weren't used by Portage as part of a package's unique identity - |
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> then we could afford to be more flexible on this. |
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> Best regards, |
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> Stu |
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That sounds like a cool idea, but it requires a few things. |
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We need a way to browse the tree, that supports packages being in |
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several categories. (Lets call them category-keywords). |
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Having a directory structure might not be the best way, since the |
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category-keywords will be more of a metadata thing, than a directory. |
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I'm not sure how this could be implemented, but it sure requires a GLEP. |
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Any suggestions on how this could be implemented? (Maybe having a SQLite |
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database with all the meta info, to save some time syncing and space. |
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Could with a bit of luck have all the metadata for portage, like digests |
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etc. , but thats another idea though). |
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Best Regards |
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Bjarke |
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