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From: "Kevin F. Quinn" <kevquinn@gentoo.org>
To: <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: sys-pam category
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 21:47:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <OO6Z2N.398675523AN3R62@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200506052121.38746@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org

I'm with Ned & fozer on this, in general at least. This is the second time this issue has come up over the last month or so; it's what kicks off the flat-tree debate.  My preference in practice is to leave the current tree allocation of packages to categories well alone (to avoid unnecessary disruption), de-emphasize the tree categories as useful data (I find them more of a hindrance than a help) and focus on query tools and metadata.xml.

It'd be nice to ditch categories completely of course, but obviously that's not practical :)

A suggestion, if I may. One simple way to manage a set of packages spread across the tree is to create set of softlinks to them in a directory outside the tree.  So you could create a directory "pam" somewhere handy, and softlink from the relevant packages in your CVS tree or sync tree to it.

Kev.



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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-06-06 19:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-05 14:22 [gentoo-dev] Proposal: sys-pam category Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2005-06-05 14:44 ` Alin Nastac
2005-06-06  0:34   ` Mike Doty
2005-06-06  4:00     ` Alin Nastac
2005-06-05 15:37 ` Ned Ludd
2005-06-05 16:34   ` Jonas Geiregat
2005-06-05 16:42     ` foser
2005-06-05 17:25       ` Nathan L. Adams
2005-06-05 18:13         ` Ned Ludd
2005-06-05 20:57           ` Nathan L. Adams
2005-06-05 21:03             ` Nathan L. Adams
2005-06-05 21:55             ` Ned Ludd
2005-06-06 10:43               ` Jan Jitse Venselaar
2005-06-05 19:13         ` Jonas Geiregat
2005-06-05 17:34   ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2005-06-05 19:03     ` Ned Ludd
2005-06-05 19:21       ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2005-06-05 20:13         ` Ned Ludd
2005-06-06 19:47         ` Kevin F. Quinn [this message]
2005-06-05 17:50   ` Michael Cummings
2005-06-05 18:10     ` Lance Albertson
2005-06-06 14:06     ` [gentoo-dev] " sf
2005-06-06 14:29       ` Jason Stubbs
2005-06-05 15:59 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ian Leitch
2005-06-05 22:03 ` Robin H. Johnson

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