Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Ebuild Categories: a suggestion

[Maciek Borowka]

Hmm...

I like it.

If we do that; we could put a nice script to list all the packages from one
category,
so perhaps something like :

DESCRIPTION="A graphical file comparator and merge tool simular to xdiff."
EMERGE_CATEGORY="dev-util"
EMERGE_CATEGORY="x11-misc"
SRC_URI="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/xxdiff/${P}.src.tar.gz"


would be better (simple grep would then do what we want)...

/Maciek


Sean Mitchell wrote:

> This is probably the single biggest issue on this list. It seems that every
> day there's a post questioning why an ebuild is in a given location and not
> some other.
>
> I really don't see how anyone could ever come up with a structure that's
> intuitive for everyone... we just don't all think the same way. For myself,
> I don't even bother with the structure, I prefer to do a find on *.ebuild in
> /usr/portage to see what's there.
>
> A few years ago I put together a series of OS/2 shareware CDs and had the
> same problem - many packages didn't clearly fit in one place or another.
>
> The solution I came up with and the one I suggest here is that the
> categories be eliminated altogether. in this case one big /usr/portage with
> a directory for each package.
>
> I mean, it's easy enough to grep the description fields, or even put all
> possible categories in a new tag in the ebuild. It would be simple to put
> together some tools to show the packages by category if desired.
>
> Something like:
>
> S=${WORKDIR}/${P}
> DESCRIPTION="A graphical file comparator and merge tool simular to xdiff."
> CATEGORY="dev-util x11-misc"
> SRC_URI="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/xxdiff/${P}.src.tar.gz"
> HOMEPAGE="http://xxdiff.sourceforge.net/"
>
> What do you think?
>
> Sean
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