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From: Maciek Borowka <Maciej.BOROWKA@××××××××××××××××.fr>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Multiple categories for one ebuild (Was Re: [gentoo-dev] why is xxdiff (a graphical browser) not in portage/x11-misc?)
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 08:38:53
Message-Id: 3C629137.304ADE61@ifaedi.insa-lyon.fr
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] why is xxdiff (a graphical browser) not in portage/x11-misc? by mikepolniak
1 Yes, I wrote about this problem some time ago...
2 As a KDE user, I would like to have a kde-apps category with everything
3 gentoo offers for KDE...
4
5 I believe it could be solved with symbolic links in the portage tree...
6
7 /Maciek
8
9 mikepolniak wrote:
10
11 > I saw xxdiff on freshmeat described as :
12 > xxdiff is a graphical browser for viewing the differences between two or three files,
13 > or between two directories, and can be used to produce a merged version.
14 >
15 > So i immediately looked in portage/x11-misc ( i know i can use #qpkg xxdiff to find it),
16 > only to find it was in dev-util.
17 >
18 > Notwithstanding the use of qpkg, i still think its a good idea to have ebuilds in their
19 > likely categories. But should ebuilds also be listed in more than one category?
20 >
21 > As the number of ebuilds grows into the thousands( i hope) they may just clutter
22 > the tree, even if there is a gui front-end made for browsing portage ebuilds.
23 > (Storm Linux- a Debian distro had a really good bowser, showing dependencies etc.)
24 >
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[gentoo-dev] Re: Multiple categories for one ebuild Einar Karttunen <ekarttun@×××××××××××.fi>