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On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 16:52, Jean Jordaan wrote: |
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> >> but how about make more than 2 |
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> >> levels in portage, as in OpenBSD's ports tree ? |
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> My personal feeling is that many packages don't belong in only one |
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> category. E.g. in portage currently: |
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> * app-text/yudit |
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> Description: free (Y)unicode text editor for all unices |
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> * app-editors/jedit |
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> Description: Programmer's editor written in Java |
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> Both make sense, and app-editors/yudit & app-editors/yudit would |
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> also make sense. Instead of categories, ebuilds should have a |
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> CATEGORY variable. E.g. |
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Portage support would be required to support deeper trees. The problem |
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with symlinks is that we use CVS for our portage tree, which doesn't |
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support symlinks (or graceful renaming, or ...); unfortunately, it's the |
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best game in town for us right now. |
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I agree w/ Vapier on this one. The short-term fix should be fine, and |
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I, too, would like to see support for a more heirarchical portage tree |
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in a future version of portage. |
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-g2boojum- |
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Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@g.o> |
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