From: Einar Karttunen <ekarttun@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Multiple categories for one ebuild
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 17:54:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020207155418.GD18109@shellak.helsinki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C629137.304ADE61@ifaedi.insa-lyon.fr>
On 07.02.02 15:37 +0100(+0000), Maciek Borowka wrote:
> Yes, I wrote about this problem some time ago...
> As a KDE user, I would like to have a kde-apps category with everything
> gentoo offers for KDE...
>
> I believe it could be solved with symbolic links in the portage tree...
We would have to change /var/db/pkg organisation for that. The other
choice would be to add category files, which would contain the names
of packages the category includes. Also symbolinc links don't offer
the possiblity of sub-categories and are harder to manage in cvs.
- Einar Karttunen
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-07 15:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-07 14:26 [gentoo-dev] why is xxdiff (a graphical browser) not in portage/x11-misc? mikepolniak
2002-02-07 14:37 ` Multiple categories for one ebuild (Was Re: [gentoo-dev] why is xxdiff (a graphical browser) not in portage/x11-misc?) Maciek Borowka
2002-02-07 15:54 ` Einar Karttunen [this message]
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