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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: New category proposal
From: 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=3D"foo/bar {12379812AD7382164BD87678652438FC65E43A2}" doesn't ha=
ve
> > the same kind of ring to it...
>=20
> 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.=20
> It prevents upstream naming collisions=20
But reduces readability for humans to zero. We don't want that.
> & opens multiple categories per package=20
> completely. Mr Harring will hate it,=20
At least you haven't tried to optimize it all by using XML ...
> but the rest of us will use=20
> `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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