RE: Multiple categories for one ebuild (Was Re: [gentoo-dev] why is xxdiff (a graphical browser) not in portage/x11-misc?)

RE: Multiple categories for one ebuild (Was Re: [gentoo-dev] why is xxdiff (a graphical browser) not in portage/x11-misc?)

[Sean Mitchell]

Dunno how we would support symlinks in CVS....

-----Original Message-----
From: Maciek Borowka [mailto:Maciej.BOROWKA@ifaedi.insa-lyon.fr]
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 9:38 AM
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?)


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

Re: Multiple categories for one ebuild (Was Re: [gentoo-dev] why is xxdiff (a graphical browser) not in portage/x11-misc?)

[Maciek Borowka]

Sean Mitchell wrote:

> Dunno how we would support symlinks in CVS....
>

This is THE problem....
:+(

/Maciek


>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Maciek Borowka [mailto:Maciej.BOROWKA@ifaedi.insa-lyon.fr]
> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 9:38 AM
> 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?)
>
> 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
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[gentoo-dev] why is xxdiff (a graphical browser) not in portage/x11-misc?

[mikepolniak]

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.)

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Multiple categories for one ebuild (Was Re: [gentoo-dev] why is xxdiff (a graphical browser) not in portage/x11-misc?)

[Maciek Borowka]

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.)
>
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