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Maciej Mrozowski wrote: |
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> I was thinking, maybe it would be possible to drop categories completely in |
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> the future (maybe keeping symlinks for compatibility and to ease migration) |
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> and to put *all* packages in one directory - that would require making all |
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> names unique of course. |
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Tags for packages are not a new idea; it's been brought up on this list |
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before. But I really, really, don't like the idea of renaming packages. |
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So, what, we're turning into Debian? Arbitrary package (re)naming? Yuck! |
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Our current policy is to call the package what upstream calls it. We can |
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do this largely *because* of categories. There are a few noncompliant |
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packages, but the system generally works pretty well. |
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