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From: Colin Kingsley <ckingsley@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Package sub-categories, directory performance, and benchmarking
Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 16:55:59
Message-Id: 13cc2f78041109085569351df@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Package sub-categories, directory performance, and benchmarking by Carsten Lohrke
1 On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, Carsten Lohrke wrote:
2 > metadata wouldn't need to go away. Just the representation via directories.
3 > If this would be done via keywords (not the arch ones), then everyone could
4 > use (either cli or more powerful graphical) tools to represent sets of
5 > packages in many ways.
6
7 I'm a big fan of this idea. With a good tool to browse by category,
8 this would be ideal. As an added bonus, a package could belong to
9 multiple categories without duplicating the ebuild in the tree.
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11 Colin
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