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On Sunday 07 November 2004 14:18, M. Edward Borasky wrote: |
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> On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 14:12, George Shapovalov wrote: |
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> > So, can we finally get something decided on arbitrary depth categories? |
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> Hmmm ... Debian's tree is (roughly) twice as big, and their hierarchy is |
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> also single-level (sections, they call them). Both Debian's and Gentoo's |
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> are unusable without searching. |
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Searchability has its strong points, browsability has other strong points |
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(say, you want to see what's available on certain topic. Searching for some |
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word in the name ore description not always gives all the options..). I think |
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we need both. |
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Besides this is not a new proposal. This topic was coming up quite a few times |
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already, but never really decided upon. |
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> In fact, Gentoo's is unusable without |
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> "esearch"; that along with "ufed" ought to be in "stage3", don't you |
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> think? |
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Well, esearch has a separate database which has to be manually rebuilt, so |
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this is a separate utility, although a prime candidate for gentoolkit. As for |
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putting it into a stage3, not really sure either way. |
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WRT ufed, yea, but I would prefer seeing something a bit more organized |
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there :) (with the ability to turn on/off local flags at least). |
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George |
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