From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
To: James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>
Cc: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new "qt" category
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 19:44:14 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130117194414.63766093@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m38v7rob5i.fsf@carbon.jhcloos.org>
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On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:35:12 -0500
James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> wrote:
> >>>>> "CM" == Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com> writes:
> CM> That's what's known as "doing it wrong". You should be querying
> CM> your package mangler for a list of categories, not doing an 'ls'.
>
> ls(1) isn't relevant. find(1) is. grep(1) is. There are others.
>
> Using the 'package managers' isn't very helpful. They generally do
> everything poorly. And usually **s*l*o*w*l*y**, if they compile at
> all.
On the other hand, they do things correctly, which your approach
doesn't.
> I can't even remember every time I've needed to use a regex, glob or
> other pattern match where the fact that the real categories had a dash
> made things easier and faster.
But wrong. If you want wrong answers quickly, cat /dev/urandom.
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Ciaran McCreesh
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Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-17 13:57 [gentoo-dev] RFC: new "qt" category Ben de Groot
2013-01-17 14:03 ` Ian Whyman
2013-01-17 14:05 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2013-01-17 14:33 ` Ben de Groot
2013-01-17 14:45 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2013-01-19 11:23 ` Ben de Groot
2013-01-17 16:51 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2013-01-17 17:05 ` James Cloos
2013-01-17 17:08 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2013-01-17 19:35 ` James Cloos
2013-01-17 19:44 ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2013-01-18 4:24 ` Mike Frysinger
2013-01-18 15:13 ` Markos Chandras
2013-01-17 14:09 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2013-01-17 14:38 ` Ben de Groot
2013-01-17 14:11 ` Alexander Berntsen
2013-01-17 14:25 ` [gentoo-dev] " Michael Palimaka
2013-01-17 14:43 ` Alexander Berntsen
2013-01-17 14:30 ` [gentoo-dev] " vivo75
2013-01-17 14:43 ` Samuli Suominen
2013-01-17 15:57 ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-01-17 17:03 ` James Cloos
2013-01-17 17:14 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2013-01-17 17:52 ` Rich Freeman
2013-01-17 18:40 ` Chris Reffett
2013-01-17 22:32 ` Georg Rudoy
2013-01-17 22:46 ` Andreas K. Huettel
2013-01-17 22:57 ` Alec Warner
2013-01-18 19:16 ` Federico "fox" Scrinzi
2013-01-18 19:22 ` Christoph Junghans
2013-01-19 10:56 ` Ben de Groot
2013-01-19 12:43 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2013-01-19 13:21 ` Rich Freeman
2013-01-19 13:39 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2013-01-19 13:46 ` Patrick Lauer
2013-01-19 14:00 ` Rich Freeman
2013-01-19 14:14 ` Ben de Groot
2013-01-19 15:38 ` Michael Weber
2013-01-19 22:55 ` Francesco Riosa
2013-01-20 8:17 ` Ben de Groot
2013-01-19 16:48 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2013-01-20 8:24 ` Ben de Groot
2013-01-20 9:50 ` Duncan
2013-01-20 13:35 ` Dale
2013-01-20 13:59 ` Ben de Groot
2013-01-20 17:04 ` Duncan
2013-01-20 18:03 ` Dale
2013-01-19 21:03 ` [gentoo-dev] " Philip Webb
2013-01-20 8:29 ` Ben de Groot
2013-01-19 19:34 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2013-01-19 19:27 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2013-01-19 17:19 ` Michał Górny
2013-01-19 19:57 ` Markos Chandras
2013-01-19 22:59 ` Francesco Riosa
2013-01-20 8:34 ` Ben de Groot
2013-01-20 7:59 ` [gentoo-dev] " Nikos Chantziaras
2013-01-20 8:39 ` Ben de Groot
2013-01-20 9:09 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2013-01-20 9:20 ` Ben de Groot
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