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On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:35:12 -0500 |
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James Cloos <cloos@×××××××.com> wrote: |
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> >>>>> "CM" == Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> writes: |
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> CM> That's what's known as "doing it wrong". You should be querying |
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> CM> your package mangler for a list of categories, not doing an 'ls'. |
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> ls(1) isn't relevant. find(1) is. grep(1) is. There are others. |
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> Using the 'package managers' isn't very helpful. They generally do |
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> everything poorly. And usually **s*l*o*w*l*y**, if they compile at |
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> all. |
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On the other hand, they do things correctly, which your approach |
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doesn't. |
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> I can't even remember every time I've needed to use a regex, glob or |
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> other pattern match where the fact that the real categories had a dash |
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> made things easier and faster. |
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But wrong. If you want wrong answers quickly, cat /dev/urandom. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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