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Brian Harring wrote: |
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> On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 10:28:48PM +0200, David Klaftenegger wrote: |
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>>Why not just create a symlink to the package in the category it *also* |
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>>should be in? |
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>>For example, net-mail/mutt could be a symlink to ../mail-client/mutt, |
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>>allowing to find it in both categories. |
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> It's a better approach then tagging it into the metadata imo, since it |
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> forces unique cat/package still. Won't play nice if the tree's fs |
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> doesn't like symlinks though (fat)... |
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Well, instead of a symlink it could also be a textfile containing the |
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package it points to... but who wants to use a floppy fs for the tree |
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anyways? |
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> Also doesn't seem incredibly useful to me, although keep in mind I'm |
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> the lazy bugger who thinks what's there currently suffices :) |
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> ~brian |
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The discussion lasted long enough for me to think about the problem; |
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I personally would save 10 seconds to a minute every now and then if |
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there were multiple categories, so I'd like it, but I don't know if that |
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little gain would justify the effort to implement it. |
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Greetings, |
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David |
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