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On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 16:03:38 +0100 |
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Alexander Berntsen <bernalex@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 23/03/14 15:46, Jeroen Roovers wrote: |
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> > "This GLEP author would love to blight categories out of gentoo |
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> > history as a giant mistake." |
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That's not what I wrote. It's a quotation. |
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> It does not matter. Just remove that line. It is irrelevant. |
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The point in asking why it's there was to establish why the GLEP as a |
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whole is relevant. In other words: it would be trivial[1] yet |
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pains-taking[2] to establish an alternative means to address the package |
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manager to package targets, but why would we want to do it? |
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Examples of where atoms fail and where tags do better could enlighten |
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us. |
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[1] Set up a PM wrapper that translates tags into atoms. |
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[2] Set up a database of such translations, with a really easy |
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fail-over to ordinary atoms where the database is incomplete. |
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