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On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 13:25 -0400, Nathan L. Adams wrote: |
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> foser wrote: |
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> > On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 18:34 +0200, Jonas Geiregat wrote: |
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> >>I do agree with you but some package just have completely wrong place |
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> >>within portage, such package placements migh confuse the user. |
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> >>To give an example: mzscheme was placed in dev-lisp while portage had a |
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> >>dev-scheme directory. |
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> > The current set-up isn't user-browseable anyway and hasn't been for a |
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> > long time. I don't think the focus should be on correcting that in the |
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> > tree, the user tools should be improved really. |
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> Then why is their a browsable "Categories" link on the packages site? |
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> http://packages.gentoo.org/categories/ |
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> I don't agree with Ned. Organizing the packages logically makes things |
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> less confusing for the end-user and developers alike and doesn't qualify |
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> as a "cosmetic reason". It *is* valuable work, IMHO. |
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And how long before somebody proposes sys-auth? |
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*poof* we now reshuffle, but then we can do auth with ldap. So lets |
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move |
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all the */ldap* related subjects under it sys-auth/... Then a month or |
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six later comes along sys-ldap and it gets moved there. The logic will |
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go full circle before long if we consistently keep shuffling packages |
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around. |
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All in all this is seriously the reason why ebuilds have a DESCRIPTION= |
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and one of the reasons we have metadata.xml files. |
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Ned Ludd <solar@g.o> |
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