From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MfcCD-0006EL-Oj for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:15:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D9D72E02BA; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:14:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.trelane.net (mail.trelane.net [66.93.203.104]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B90CAE02BA for ; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:14:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.trelane.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31835FC01 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:14:52 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at trelane.net Received: from mail.trelane.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (master.trelane.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id kL-iJRQFOkeR for ; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:14:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.trelane.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FFE4FC03 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:14:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [172.16.1.99] (router.trelane.net [66.93.203.152]) by mail.trelane.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id E2FD4FC01 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:14:49 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4A92BC80.20109@trelane.net> Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:14:56 -0400 From: Andrew D Kirch User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090822) 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] Two-level portage tree is irrelevant. References: <4A92B970.5050107@mail.ru> In-Reply-To: <4A92B970.5050107@mail.ru> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e1b2e44a-07ef-4829-b833-4b11067ae197 X-Archives-Hash: e0de402fa2e8bd1ae9aaeeaf0b4a3f3b Dmitry Grigoriev wrote: > Hello everyone. > > I posted an enhacement suggestion to bugzilla and was advised to discuss > it here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=282491 (please read with > comments). > > The idea is that package tree physical structure must correspond to > logical structure. E.g. package kde/games/tactics-and-strategy/knetwalk > instead of kde-base/knetwalk, and kde/games/all instead of manually > managed meta-package or set @kde-games (kde/all == @kde, > kde/games/arcade/all == @kde-games-arcade, ...). > > Jeremy Olexa already answered me in bugzilla that this is not new idea, > but I'll submit my suggestion here anyway as a "voice of crowd". :) I'm > just home user with about 2 years linux experience, do like gentoo, but > with exception of this inconvenience. > > Best regards, > Dmitry > > > > I don't see a problem with this per-se other than that the massive amount of re-organization which would be required, which could otherwise be spent on fixing bugs, adding enhancements, and other cool stuff. I think the price is too high in the manpower catagory. Andrew