From: Aron Griffis <agriffis@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Mozilla: Firebird-bin & Firebird-cvs
Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 23:22:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030529032215.GA13180@time> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vfvuvl3x.fsf@killr.ath.cx>
Matthew Kennedy wrote:[Wed May 28 2003, 05:04:34PM EDT]
> But wait! Thats what categories are for -- ie. defining some
> namespace. Thus there's no need, and this more or less backs up my
> argument that the category name + package name forms a "fully resolved
> and unique" symbol for emerge to act upon.
Actually, that's a misconception of the purpose of categories in
portage. It's never been to provide namespaces; that is a side-effect.
Categories make it easier for users to find what packages are available
for a given type of task. That's their purpose.
There was a discussion a while ago (um, a couple years ago) about
removing categories completely and having a flat list of packages. The
argument against this was that the categories provide an easy way for
users (and developers) to see what is available in a given area. It was
not intended for categories to provide namespaces.
Aron
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Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-19 1:14 [gentoo-dev] Mozilla: Firebird-bin & Firebird-cvs Dhruba Bandopadhyay
2003-05-19 4:54 ` Russell Tennant
2003-05-19 5:38 ` Chris PeBenito
2003-05-19 9:56 ` Alastair 'liquidx' Tse
2003-05-19 11:01 ` Georgi Georgiev
2003-05-19 13:22 ` Alastair 'liquidx' Tse
2003-05-19 18:52 ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-05-19 6:40 ` Spundun Bhatt
2003-05-19 9:49 ` Christian Gut
2003-05-25 12:43 ` Christian Axelsson
2003-05-25 12:46 ` Dhruba Bandopadhyay
2003-05-25 12:56 ` Christian Axelsson
2003-05-25 13:16 ` Georgi Georgiev
2003-05-25 17:26 ` Zack Gilburd
2003-05-25 18:31 ` Jon Portnoy
2003-05-28 8:22 ` Matthew Kennedy
2003-05-28 8:47 ` Kumba
2003-05-28 9:06 ` Georgi Georgiev
2003-05-28 9:20 ` Kumba
2003-05-28 9:54 ` Michael Kohl
2003-05-28 14:06 ` Jon Portnoy
2003-05-28 18:13 ` George Shapovalov
2003-05-28 19:08 ` Jon Portnoy
2003-05-28 21:04 ` Matthew Kennedy
2003-05-28 21:14 ` Dave Nellans
2003-05-28 22:40 ` George Shapovalov
2003-05-29 3:22 ` Aron Griffis [this message]
2003-05-29 6:40 ` John Robinson
2003-05-29 10:17 ` Matt Tucker
2003-05-29 13:31 ` John Robinson
2003-05-29 14:00 ` Tavis Ormandy
2003-05-29 14:27 ` John Robinson
2003-05-30 7:03 ` Matthew Kennedy
2003-05-30 7:15 ` Georgi Georgiev
2003-05-30 10:52 ` Christian Axelsson
2003-05-30 15:23 ` Grant Goodyear
2003-06-15 11:28 ` Matthew Kennedy
2003-05-28 19:21 ` Jon Portnoy
2003-05-29 3:24 ` Aron Griffis
2003-05-30 6:45 ` Matthew Kennedy
2003-05-28 23:56 ` William F Pearson III
2003-05-28 9:08 ` Troy Dack
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