From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LWEfi-0002gW-42 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 08 Feb 2009 18:46:26 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D6A39E0415; Sun, 8 Feb 2009 18:46:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFA47E0415 for ; Sun, 8 Feb 2009 18:46:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.100] (173-224.1-85.cust.bluewin.ch [85.1.224.173]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D445B641B0 for ; Sun, 8 Feb 2009 18:46:20 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Category tags on packages (was: new categories:) From: Tiziano =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=FCller?= To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <8b4c83ad0902081011r556af496x2e68a8329b12882a@mail.gmail.com> References: <84250c9c0902010932m539beba1v19fac18fde4569d9@mail.gmail.com> <49876289.20306@gentoo.org> <200902022310.27612.reavertm@poczta.fm> <1233623862.31569.20.camel@localhost> <8b4c83ad0902021849l2b856146h37c4ac91be3693f6@mail.gmail.com> <498F1D93.3080909@gentoo.org> <8b4c83ad0902081010u3153f057xf2b193a516d4df5e@mail.gmail.com> <8b4c83ad0902081011r556af496x2e68a8329b12882a@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-kVtxHuqqF8pF19B78fY6" Organization: Gentoo Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:46:05 +0100 Message-Id: <1234118765.18160.2.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.4 X-Archives-Salt: 1a01601b-e93c-4577-b3cb-908e41bdd52f X-Archives-Hash: 284db17b4ac128ec504e0940833a0f75 --=-kVtxHuqqF8pF19B78fY6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Am Sonntag, den 08.02.2009, 23:41 +0530 schrieb Nirbheek Chauhan: > On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 11:40 PM, Nirbheek Chauhan > wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Federico Ferri = wrote: > >> tags <-> packages is a many-to-many relation. > > > > Aren't tags _made_ to be many-to-many? >=20 > ie, symlinking can allow that kind of relationship >=20 No, symlinking sucks for various reasons. Here are some: - filesystem access is slow - moving packages from one category to another gets even worse because you have to check for deadlinks - you have to check for deadlinks anyway because people forget to remove them when removing packages - good luck with that on Gentoo/Prefix-Interix --=20 =EF=BB=BF------------------------------------------------------- Tiziano M=C3=BCller Gentoo Linux Developer, Council Member Areas of responsibility: Samba, PostgreSQL, CPP, Python, sysadmin E-Mail : dev-zero@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : F327 283A E769 2E36 18D5 4DE2 1B05 6A63 AE9C 1E30 --=-kVtxHuqqF8pF19B78fY6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkmPKG0ACgkQGwVqY66cHjC+bACdF25eVbENUZVE0vYNb0WdmbpB dcoAn23O5uAZcPN9MRxpg0LpOJIQ1yO/ =9IjQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-kVtxHuqqF8pF19B78fY6--