Re: [gentoo-dev] New Portage Category: dev-scheme

[George Shapovalov <george@gentoo.org>]

On Tuesday 27 January 2004 05:29, Jean Jordaan wrote:
> Always when this comes back up I wish portage didn't categorize
> in terms of an arbitrary fixed tree, but in terms of a flat list
> (or alphabetical tree) of packages, where each package has one
> or more keywords. In this case, scheme would have keywords like:
No. This will completely prohibit browsing the tree (yes, there are some of us 
who actually do this ;)). True, not always you can assign the unique category 
and lately some of them are becoming quite long. However the econd one is 
easily solved by multilevel categories. As for the first one..

A combined proposal for multilevel categories (like 
dev/lisp/{common,scheme...} might be in this case) and for search keywords 
went in for portage-ng some time ago (gentoo-portage-dev mailing list). There 
is absolutely no reason to limit us to one approach when we can easily have 
both ;). Unfortunately I do not think this will happen before transition to 
portage-ng (read for quite a while).

George


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