From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28427 invoked by uid 1002); 2 Jun 2003 16:03:46 -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 31508 invoked from network); 2 Jun 2003 16:03:45 -0000 Message-ID: <3EDB74CB.4010406@helide.com> Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 18:01:15 +0200 From: Rolf Veen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <1054557468.16242.5.camel@carbon.internal.lan> <20030602132429.GA12256%chutz@gg3.net> In-Reply-To: <20030602132429.GA12256%chutz@gg3.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] namespace and categories ( was: Media-music category) X-Archives-Salt: d8c71cb4-ac77-49be-bf0c-6d246b6c5ed4 X-Archives-Hash: 5fc176b761b26a47baf94f083dca003b Georgi Georgiev wrote: > BTW, if the duplicate-names package problem is resolved once and for all, it > wouldn't be too bad an idea to let a package exist in different categories at > the same time. A symlink could do the trick, and it would also make sure that > more people find the package they need. It would also make for categorizing > those hard to categorize packages. I would separate namespace and categories: let portage work with a *flat* namespace that does not depend on categorization. A package may well fit in more than one category, as you say. I find categorization too arbitrary to include in a robust tool like portage. So, give the users a 'category view' on top a flat namespace, but use these categories only for information. In fact, categories can be made of only a hierarchy of symlinks to the main directory: ¿ Too much files in the main directory then ? That's is a different problem. But not one that justifies, on its own, the use of categories. Rolf (My first post here: hi all) -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list