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From: Andrew D Kirch <trelane@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Two-level portage tree is irrelevant.
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:15:02
Message-Id: 4A92BC80.20109@trelane.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Two-level portage tree is irrelevant. by Dmitry Grigoriev
1 Dmitry Grigoriev wrote:
2 > Hello everyone.
3 >
4 > I posted an enhacement suggestion to bugzilla and was advised to discuss
5 > it here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=282491 (please read with
6 > comments).
7 >
8 > The idea is that package tree physical structure must correspond to
9 > logical structure. E.g. package kde/games/tactics-and-strategy/knetwalk
10 > instead of kde-base/knetwalk, and kde/games/all instead of manually
11 > managed meta-package or set @kde-games (kde/all == @kde,
12 > kde/games/arcade/all == @kde-games-arcade, ...).
13 >
14 > Jeremy Olexa already answered me in bugzilla that this is not new idea,
15 > but I'll submit my suggestion here anyway as a "voice of crowd". :) I'm
16 > just home user with about 2 years linux experience, do like gentoo, but
17 > with exception of this inconvenience.
18 >
19 > Best regards,
20 > Dmitry
21 >
22 >
23 >
24 >
25 I don't see a problem with this per-se other than that the massive
26 amount of re-organization which would be required, which could otherwise
27 be spent on fixing bugs, adding enhancements, and other cool stuff. I
28 think the price is too high in the manpower catagory.
29
30 Andrew

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[gentoo-dev] Re: Two-level portage tree is irrelevant. Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>