Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Breaking up the beast known as app-games

[Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@gentoo.org>]

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On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 16:52, Jean Jordaan wrote:
> >> but how about make more than 2
> >> levels in portage, as in OpenBSD's ports tree ?
> 
> My personal feeling is that many packages don't belong in only one
> category. E.g. in portage currently:
> 
> *  app-text/yudit
>        Description: free (Y)unicode text editor for all unices
> 
> *  app-editors/jedit
>        Description: Programmer's editor written in Java
> 
> Both make sense, and app-editors/yudit & app-editors/yudit would
> also make sense. Instead of categories, ebuilds should have a
> CATEGORY variable. E.g.

Portage support would be required to support deeper trees.  The problem
with symlinks is that we use CVS for our portage tree, which doesn't
support symlinks (or graceful renaming, or ...); unfortunately, it's the
best game in town for us right now.

I agree w/ Vapier on this one.  The short-term fix should be fine, and
I, too, would like to see support for a more heirarchical portage tree
in a future version of portage.

-g2boojum-
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Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@gentoo.org>

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