Re: [gentoo-dev] A new category scheme idea

[Vitaly Kushneriuk]

I have a good news for you Einar, the features you want
are already there ;). Just read on.

On Mon, 2002-02-04 at 14:07, Einar Karttunen wrote:
> On 04.02.02 12:47 +0100(+0000), gentoo-user@××××××××.net wrote:
> > On 4 Feb 2002, Vitaly Kushneriuk wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, 2002-02-04 at 13:25, gentoo-user@××××××××.net wrote:
> >
> > > Just an idea:
> > > to simplify it we can have *optional* KEYWORDS="xxx yyy" in
> > > ebuild file, and "emerge --update-keywords" command to
> > > scan through available ebuilds and dump their names to apropriate files
> > > under /usr/portage/keywords
> > > i.e. if in dev-lang/python-2.1.1-r3.ebuild, there's
> > > KEYWORD="DEVELOPMENT PYTHON COMPILER"
> > > dev-lang/python-2.1.1-r3 will be appended to
> > > /usr/portage/keywords/{DEVELOPMENT,PYTHON,COMPILER}
> > >
> >
> > Slick idea, I don't know whether we want categories or keywords, but it
> > basically comes down on the same thing. But you're right that's the way to
> > do it with the least amount of maintenance.
> >
>
> I don't think so. The work would just go into specifying keywords for the
> ebuilds. If we have categories it is easier to create local categories
> and organise ebuilds by criterion the original author didn't think of.

You can do this today, just fire your favirite aditor and 
put there whatever package names that you want.

> For example lynx could be put into console-apps and web-browsers, but
> this may be done without touching the ebuild at all. So someone may create
> an category without consulting the authors of the respective ebuilds.
> This would remove the dependency of managing categories and ebuilds
> and distribute the work. Also new experimental ebuilds could be added
> quickly into portage and integrated into official categories when they
> prove successful. Gentoo installations could be copied by creating

There's nothing in the portage that prevents you having your own
ebuilds.
If you use rsync, just put them outside /usr/portage, if using cvs,
you can leave them inplace.

> a custom category containing all installed applications and then
> merging it on another server.

with MYSYSTEM being file with your preferred list of packages,
just do "emerge `cat MYSYSTEM`"

>
> - Einar Karttunen
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So as you see, your "custom" categories are already there.
The keywords come to solve problem of finding package 
that you don't know about. i.e. I want all WindowMaker dockapps.
Then I'll look in /usr/portage/keywords and see file named WMakerDockApp
for exmaple. This is if ebuild author put there the keyword. 
If not... Well, then you still have to find it manualy, and then
if you want, you can add the name to yout custom category file,
as described above.

Hope this helps,
	/Vitaly.