[gentoo-dev] why is xxdiff (a graphical browser) not in portage/x11-misc?

[gentoo-dev] why is xxdiff (a graphical browser) not in portage/x11-misc?

[mikepolniak]

I  saw xxdiff on freshmeat described as :
xxdiff is a graphical browser for viewing the differences between two or three files,
or between two directories, and can be used to produce a merged version.	

So i immediately looked in portage/x11-misc ( i know i can use #qpkg xxdiff to find it),
only to find it was in dev-util.

Notwithstanding the use of qpkg,  i still think its a good idea to have ebuilds in their
likely categories. But should ebuilds also be listed in more than one category?

As the number of ebuilds grows into the thousands( i hope) they may just clutter
the tree, even if there is a gui front-end made for browsing portage ebuilds.
(Storm Linux- a Debian distro had a really good bowser, showing dependencies etc.)

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Multiple categories for one ebuild (Was Re: [gentoo-dev] why is xxdiff (a graphical browser) not in portage/x11-misc?)

[Maciek Borowka]

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...

/Maciek

mikepolniak wrote:

> I  saw xxdiff on freshmeat described as :
> xxdiff is a graphical browser for viewing the differences between two or three files,
> or between two directories, and can be used to produce a merged version.
>
> So i immediately looked in portage/x11-misc ( i know i can use #qpkg xxdiff to find it),
> only to find it was in dev-util.
>
> Notwithstanding the use of qpkg,  i still think its a good idea to have ebuilds in their
> likely categories. But should ebuilds also be listed in more than one category?
>
> As the number of ebuilds grows into the thousands( i hope) they may just clutter
> the tree, even if there is a gui front-end made for browsing portage ebuilds.
> (Storm Linux- a Debian distro had a really good bowser, showing dependencies etc.)
>
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[gentoo-dev] Re: Multiple categories for one ebuild

[Einar Karttunen]

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