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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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""" |
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DESCRIPTION="free (Y)unicode text editor for all unices" |
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SRC_URI="http://yudit.org/download/${P}.tar.gz" |
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HOMEPAGE="http://www.yudit.org/" |
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CATEGORY="app-text app-editors" # <= all categories that make sense |
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""" |
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App directories can then be in one directory, or can be split by |
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letter to keep the number of files per directory smaller (e.g. |
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/usr/portage/aa/aa-sources |
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/usr/portage/aa/aalib |
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/usr/portage/aa/aap |
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/usr/portage/aa/aaquake2 |
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/usr/portage/ab/abcde |
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/usr/portage/ab/abcm2ps |
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/usr/portage/ab/abiword |
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/usr/portage/ab/abook |
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Then you do `emerge search app-text` instead of |
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`ls /usr/portage/app-text`, and guessing whether vim is there, |
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or in app-vim or in app-editors. |
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-- |
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Jean Jordaan |
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http://www.upfrontsystems.co.za |
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