From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JNDnb-0006XV-7n for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:56:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7217FE0353; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 20:56:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 470ADE0353 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 20:56:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gentoo.org (xray.science.oregonstate.edu [128.193.220.51]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F33E265B95 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 20:56:43 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 12:56:43 -0800 From: Donnie Berkholz To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] new portage categories Message-ID: <20080207205643.GA27711@comet.science.oregonstate.edu> References: <92e3e00f0802040935j5414a163y3455c1e0c3cd7422@mail.gmail.com> <20080204184137.GA3887@comet.science.oregonstate.edu> <92e3e00f0802041111m3d838158gd9b6fbd7f7818d83@mail.gmail.com> <20080204200616.GB3887@comet.science.oregonstate.edu> <92e3e00f0802041223j582f93bbq7cbb64bd42deb9f2@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: d43db366-58a4-4336-abf2-91af29ab5458 X-Archives-Hash: c90b68811b61dc9341688b6503eb9cc6 On 15:12 Wed 06 Feb , Alec Warner wrote: > On 2/4/08, Jonas Bernoulli wrote: > > On 2/4/08, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > > On 20:11 Mon 04 Feb , Jonas Bernoulli wrote: > > > > Thinking about it again I would say tags and categories just fulfill > > > > different purposes. Tags can not replace categories but might be a > > > > useful extension to categories for the tasks I described, not more not > > > > less. They are not better or worse, just different:) > > > > > > Why don't you think they can replace categories? > > > > Quick answer: Because there are packages with the same name in > > different categories. How would tags deal with that? > > Techincally you could enforce UNIQUE(pkg,[tags]), I agree thats a poor > constraint though ;) I would probably print the ambiguous package name, with info on each package, and a list of tags unique to each that could be used to specify which one you want. Perhaps a numbered list too. Thanks, Donnie -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list