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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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[snip] |
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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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[snip] |
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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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As someone stated on #gentoo-dev, is CVS/rsync happy with symlinks? Or |
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would it need another functionality to Portage to create those links in |
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the "updating cache" phase after sync? |
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-jkt |
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cd /local/pub && more beer > /dev/mouth |
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