From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10196 invoked by uid 1002); 4 Sep 2003 22:27:19 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 8356 invoked from network); 4 Sep 2003 22:27:19 -0000 From: Luke-Jr Organization: Gentoo Linux To: Grant Goodyear , gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 22:26:52 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <200309041251.49718.vapier@gentoo.org> <3F57A620.4060101@upfrontsystems.co.za> <1062713398.25562.112.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1062713398.25562.112.camel@localhost> GPG-Public-Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xD53E9583 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="shift_jis" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: clearsigned data Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200309042227.10137.luke-jr@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Breaking up the beast known as app-games X-Archives-Salt: 3e6c1334-3ff0-4cf6-a97b-e57c9546975d X-Archives-Hash: 7b6baa1dff84338a6d7fdb4ab1f1f47f We could implement some kind of ebuild-link then? 'inherit app-editors/jedi= t'? 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- =2D-=20 Luke-Jr Developer, Gentoo Linux http://www.gentoo.org/ -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list