Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Breaking up the beast known as app-games

[Luke-Jr <luke-jr@gentoo.org>]

We could implement some kind of ebuild-link then? 'inherit app-editors/jedit'?

On Thursday 04 September 2003 10:09 pm, Grant Goodyear wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 16:52, Jean Jordaan wrote:
> > >> but how about make more than 2
> > >> levels in portage, as in OpenBSD's ports tree ?
> >
> > My personal feeling is that many packages don't belong in only one
> > category. E.g. in portage currently:
> >
> > *  app-text/yudit
> >        Description: free (Y)unicode text editor for all unices
> >
> > *  app-editors/jedit
> >        Description: Programmer's editor written in Java
> >
> > Both make sense, and app-editors/yudit & app-editors/yudit would
> > also make sense. Instead of categories, ebuilds should have a
> > CATEGORY variable. E.g.
>
> Portage support would be required to support deeper trees.  The problem
> with symlinks is that we use CVS for our portage tree, which doesn't
> support symlinks (or graceful renaming, or ...); unfortunately, it's the
> best game in town for us right now.
>
> I agree w/ Vapier on this one.  The short-term fix should be fine, and
> I, too, would like to see support for a more heirarchical portage tree
> in a future version of portage.
>
> -g2boojum-

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