Re: [gentoo-dev] A new category scheme idea

On 4 Feb 2002, Vitaly Kushneriuk wrote:

> On Mon, 2002-02-04 at 13:25, gentoo-user@××××××××.net wrote:

> Just an idea:
> to simplify it we can have *optional* KEYWORDS="xxx yyy" in
> ebuild file, and "emerge --update-keywords" command to
> scan through available ebuilds and dump their names to apropriate files
> under /usr/portage/keywords
> i.e. if in dev-lang/python-2.1.1-r3.ebuild, there's
> KEYWORD="DEVELOPMENT PYTHON COMPILER"
> dev-lang/python-2.1.1-r3 will be appended to
> /usr/portage/keywords/{DEVELOPMENT,PYTHON,COMPILER}
>

Slick idea, I don't know whether we want categories or keywords, but it
basically comes down on the same thing. But you're right that's the way to
do it with the least amount of maintenance.

Paul

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