From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.7 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_ADSP_NXDOMAIN,DMARC_NONE, MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from ifaedi.insa-lyon.fr (ifaedi.insa-lyon.fr [134.214.104.16]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 400DE200AD37 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 08:38:53 -0600 (CST) Received: from ifaedi.insa-lyon.fr (if202-05.insa-lyon.fr [134.214.104.59]) by ifaedi.insa-lyon.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0DD9E02B for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 15:34:59 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <3C629137.304ADE61@ifaedi.insa-lyon.fr> Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 15:37:43 +0100 From: Maciek Borowka X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en,fr-FR MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Subject: Multiple categories for one ebuild (Was Re: [gentoo-dev] why is xxdiff (a graphical browser) not in portage/x11-misc?) References: <20020207092628.34c63a08.mikpolniak@adelphia.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux developer list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: 9295b24a-7146-4db7-b366-fa13fd55c0f4 X-Archives-Hash: 9aaee8aa868fc5ee7df2962f9ce02912 Yes, I wrote about this problem some time ago... As a KDE user, I would like to have a kde-apps category with everything gentoo offers for KDE... I believe it could be solved with symbolic links in the portage tree... /Maciek mikepolniak wrote: > I saw xxdiff on freshmeat described as : > xxdiff is a graphical browser for viewing the differences between two or three files, > or between two directories, and can be used to produce a merged version. > > So i immediately looked in portage/x11-misc ( i know i can use #qpkg xxdiff to find it), > only to find it was in dev-util. > > Notwithstanding the use of qpkg, i still think its a good idea to have ebuilds in their > likely categories. But should ebuilds also be listed in more than one category? > > As the number of ebuilds grows into the thousands( i hope) they may just clutter > the tree, even if there is a gui front-end made for browsing portage ebuilds. > (Storm Linux- a Debian distro had a really good bowser, showing dependencies etc.) > > -- > Save bandwidth and time - Get Mailfilter - The Anti-Spam Utility > http://mailfilter.sourceforge.net/index.html > _______________________________________________ > gentoo-dev mailing list > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org > http://lists.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev