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On 06/27/2011 07:23 AM, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: |
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> I still don't understand why |
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> A) you need to build a project, a glep, whatever the course of action |
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> is, I am bad at bureaucracy. |
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> B) you need to code the solution, to fix What? |
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Some people requested a "tags" feature. I'm not sure if "fix" is the |
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best word. Tags will provide a new way to search for packages, that's all. |
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> C) "ls $PORTDIR/whatever-category" is a command that's way simpler |
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> than the one you posted. |
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There are lots of possible approaches. See Ciaran's "Are tags just |
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sets?" approach that is very similar to your suggested symlink approach, |
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except that it represents a tag using a text file containing a list of |
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packages instead of a directory containing symlinks. |
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> XML seems to be the trend, but we should really think a moment, what's |
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> what we are trying to fix? |
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Again, maybe "fix" isn't the best word. I believe that the goal it to |
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provide a new method of searching that is based on tags. |
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> We just needed to add some categories or rename them when someone |
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> started this thread, but now, even when we know we are lacking dev |
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> power in some areas we start arguing that the base concept of our OS |
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> (portage) is wrong, and that we should redo it completely by putting |
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> every ebuild into a directory and tagging them. |
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I would advise against going down the "redo it completely" path, since |
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it's relatively easy to implement a tagging mechanism that will coexist |
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with the existing category framework. |
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> Again, that's not "port-age". Read on ports: |
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD_Ports |
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Interestingly, the wiki page that you linked has a link to a project to |
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add tags to the ports collection: |
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http://www.tobez.org/port-tags/ |
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> I don't even use tags for my music collections and now I am going to |
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> be forced to use them to operate my OS. |
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Again, I would advise against going down the "redo it completely" path |
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that this statement implies, given that it's relatively easy to |
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implement a tagging mechanism that will coexist with the existing |
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category framework. |
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Thanks, |
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Zac |
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