Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Subcategory Capabilities?

[Andrew Gaffney]

Georgi Georgiev wrote:
> maillog: 04/10/2004-03:55:13(+0900): Chris White types
> <snip>
>
>>Something like this might be a little nicer:
>>
>>media-sound/editors/audacity
>>media-sound/players/xmms
>>
>>now let's say players gets way to huge:
>>
>>media-sound/players/mp3/
>>media-sound/players/ogg/
>
> I personally like the idea. What about turning the first dash into a
> slash as well?
>
> media/sound/editors/audacity
> media/sound/players/xmms
> media/sound/players/mp3/
> media/sound/players/ogg/

This has been brought up before in the past and been shot down, but I'll humor 
you. If support for this were to be added into Portage, there would be a few 
things to think about:

1) this will cause a performance hit no matter how it is done
2) how will Portage know the difference between a package and another
    sub-category when it is walking the tree? It could do something like walking
    all the way to the end of the category/sub-category/sub-category tree until
    it finds .ebuild files and then backing up a level or 2 to determine the
    category, but again this would cause an enormous performance hit due to the
    additional required I/O.
3) the many additional directories would cause an 'emerge sync' to take
    longer than it does now.

Basically, you'd be pissing everyone off with little benefit (except maybe to 
developer sanity). Keep in mind that I probably have absolutely no idea what I'm 
talking about and nothing I say should be accepted as fact without verifying it 
elsewhere.

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