From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23464 invoked from network); 27 Jan 2004 18:25:29 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (128.193.0.39) by eagle.gentoo.oregonstate.edu with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 27 Jan 2004 18:25:29 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([128.193.0.34] helo=eagle.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AlXtx-0006Fq-0y for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 18:25:29 +0000 Received: (qmail 21528 invoked by uid 50004); 27 Jan 2004 18:23:56 +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 32282 invoked from network); 27 Jan 2004 18:23:56 +0000 From: George Shapovalov Organization: Gentoo Linux To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 10:25:25 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.6 References: <20040124215745.GA4315@dev.gentoo.org> <20040127091451.GA9009@phaenix.haell.com> <401667C0.8070709@upfrontsystems.co.za> In-Reply-To: <401667C0.8070709@upfrontsystems.co.za> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1251" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200401271025.25420.george@gentoo.org> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 tagged_above=-100000.0 required=5.0 X-Spam-Level: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New Portage Category: dev-scheme X-Archives-Salt: b1aed88c-e856-4fcf-95e4-d258fb47ee2c X-Archives-Hash: a6d8bd2d7509bc9f4cfcfd770cdb12e9 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 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list