Re: [gentoo-dev] (FS) Attributes for Ebuilds?

[Joseph Hardin <jhlazer@charter.net>]

Why do this at a filesystem level? I may be missing the point, but why 
not just incorporate this into a seperate tool and keep a file to store 
all the comments and data. Or just include it as a comment in the 
.ebuilds and build a tool to search through these comment strings and 
write its own as u add categories?

								Joe Hardin

On Thursday, Jun 5, 2003, at 00:47 America/Denver, Michael Kohl wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> Following all the recent discussion about categories in the Portage
> tree, having packages in several categories at once, defining key words
> for packages to ease finding a similar package an idea came to my mind.
>
> Would it be possible to use filesystem attributes for Ebuilds (of 
> course
> only if the FS supports this, maybe a local useflag can do the trick)?
> This would allow users to build categories "on the fly" using a kind of
> live query mechanism.
>
> People familiar with BeFS most probably know what I'm talking about, 
> for
> anyone else just a little info:
>
> This would allow to store metadata in text form for each ebuild as a
> filesystem attribute. Therefore your filesystem kind of acts like a
> database. Using this mechanism you also could add your own attributes
> (e.g. "try_this" for ebuilds you're interested in testing sometime) and
> then list all ebuilds having this attribute.
>
> Also the setup part of an Ebuild could set an attribute like 
> "installed"
> in pkg_postinst, so it would be even easier to find all the packages
> installed on your system. Using live queries (e.g. in a nice GUI) this
> list would change immediately after you emerged a new package. Also
> finding applications similar to each other would be quite easy, as you
> can store quite a lot of metadata (e.g. mp3, ogg, media, player, etc.
> for the xmms ebuild). Sure this could be done in various other ways, 
> but
> using FS attributes just sounds like a good way of doing it.
>
> Comments (especially about the various FS and their usefullnes for this
> purpose), ideas, thoughts anyone?
>
> Michael
>
> P.S. Sorry, the thoughts in this mail aren't all that well organized or
> explained, I'm not feeling to good today...
>
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