From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27452 invoked by uid 1002); 4 Sep 2003 22:10:31 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 32117 invoked from network); 4 Sep 2003 22:10:31 -0000 From: Grant Goodyear To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <3F57A620.4060101@upfrontsystems.co.za> References: <200309041251.49718.vapier@gentoo.org> <20030904175911.GA1161@breccia.escarpment> <20030904200705.72bb2b53.cam@cameuh.net> <200309041347.24398.george@gentoo.org> <3F57A620.4060101@upfrontsystems.co.za> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-px7fyMpTZdPmUOsh3DTN" Message-Id: <1062713398.25562.112.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.4 Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 18:09:59 -0400 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Breaking up the beast known as app-games X-Archives-Salt: c5a1d64d-7e4c-4a7f-a08b-6fc117339247 X-Archives-Hash: 62b5c9e8c34257f9d01f9e03c9a7e168 --=-px7fyMpTZdPmUOsh3DTN Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 ? >=20 > My personal feeling is that many packages don't belong in only one > category. E.g. in portage currently: >=20 > * app-text/yudit > Description: free (Y)unicode text editor for all unices >=20 > * app-editors/jedit > Description: Programmer's editor written in Java >=20 > 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- --=20 Grant Goodyear --=-px7fyMpTZdPmUOsh3DTN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/V7g2ptxxUuD2W3YRAm91AJ9BVw8zpFfta90emW1gRAevzHokdACfYf0s vSvfhBE65a6cDJHz6MHQYiM= =lnBK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-px7fyMpTZdPmUOsh3DTN--