Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: New category proposal

[Patrick Lauer <patrick@gentoo.org>]

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On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 23:58 +0100, Stroller wrote:
> On May 11, 2005, at 8:10 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> >
> > * Unique ID strings for packages, zynot style. Messy as hell though,
> > DEPEND="foo/bar {12379812AD7382164BD87678652438FC65E43A2}" doesn't have
> > the same kind of ring to it...
> 
> Maybe I'm just a messy person, but I really like this.
So does Microsoft. The registry has many entries where 128bit (?)
object-IDs are used. Very interesting to debug. 
>  It prevents upstream naming collisions 
But reduces readability for humans to zero. We don't want that.

> & opens multiple categories per package 
> completely. Mr Harring will hate it, 
At least you haven't tried to optimize it all by using XML ...
> but the rest of us will use 
> `esearch -o "%p\n" "" | grep -e category -e keyword`.
*head explodes*
No.

As much as I like the idea of a "better" portage, a binary obfuscation
won't help. It might make portage more resilient to one kind of problem,
but forget debugging then.

Patrick

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