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 1LUFQK-0006B7-1R for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 07:10:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C1302E0387; Tue, 3 Feb 2009 07:10:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98D1AE0387 for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2009 07:10:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.116] (ip72-220-190-13.sd.sd.cox.net [72.220.190.13]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CA18646AA for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2009 07:10:17 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4987EDD5.8090009@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:10:13 -0800 From: Josh Saddler User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090102) 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] new categories: References: <84250c9c0902010932m539beba1v19fac18fde4569d9@mail.gmail.com> <49876289.20306@gentoo.org> <200902022310.27612.reavertm@poczta.fm> In-Reply-To: <200902022310.27612.reavertm@poczta.fm> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig79D16B8D52C85E80AD1EDF24" X-Archives-Salt: 959eeb7c-9e1f-47ec-a746-7918e0447c0b X-Archives-Hash: 9bf137ee61e8dccf857783e4356a750d This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig79D16B8D52C85E80AD1EDF24 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Maciej Mrozowski wrote: > I was thinking, maybe it would be possible to drop categories completel= y in=20 > the future (maybe keeping symlinks for compatibility and to ease migrat= ion)=20 > and to put *all* packages in one directory - that would require making = all=20 > names unique of course. Tags for packages are not a new idea; it's been brought up on this list before. But I really, really, don't like the idea of renaming packages. So, what, we're turning into Debian? Arbitrary package (re)naming? Yuck! Our current policy is to call the package what upstream calls it. We can do this largely *because* of categories. There are a few noncompliant packages, but the system generally works pretty well. --------------enig79D16B8D52C85E80AD1EDF24 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmH7dcACgkQxPWMzpKk6kMAcACgmuMSgXFx8M+2aJ97iTJV8vY0 OM4AoJli11XnW5eiBPHEwVLZsn4u9xf2 =URwW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig79D16B8D52C85E80AD1EDF24--