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 1Mp6dh-0001cr-Dy for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:34:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 09B28E0230; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:34:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dev.gentooexperimental.org (dev.gentooexperimental.org [81.93.240.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D65A7E0230 for ; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:34:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lolcathost.localnet (xdsl-78-34-178-168.netcologne.de [78.34.178.168]) by dev.gentooexperimental.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58D4A703C61; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:34:36 +0200 (CEST) From: Patrick Lauer To: Ciaran McCreesh Subject: Re: [gentoo-pms] tree-layout.tex small cleanup Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:34:39 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.90 (Linux/2.6.30-gentoo-r1; KDE/4.3.68; x86_64; ; ) Cc: gentoo-pms@lists.gentoo.org References: <200909192215.41235.patrick@gentoo.org> <20090919212541.269df025@snowcone> In-Reply-To: <20090919212541.269df025@snowcone> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Package Manager Specification discussions X-BeenThere: gentoo-pms@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-pms@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200909192234.39415.patrick@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: ccda949d-04e3-4773-91ef-b826fef0ccab X-Archives-Hash: 305d9123f71276986acb40d845e53c95 On Saturday 19 September 2009 22:25:41 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:15:40 +0200 > > Patrick Lauer wrote: > > Three small edits. > > > > - Removing a sentence that has no content, but spans three lines > > No, the two sentences you're removing both have meaning: > > The first says that it's ok for things to exist in profiles/categories > that don't have a directory Rationale for that? > The second says that the package manager mustn't treat empty categories > and categories that don't exist differently. Not quite. What it says is that an empty and a non-existing category are equivalent, which doesn't explain how to treat them. Your current interpretation is already a large improvement. > Both are necessary. No, first one is confusing to read, second one is a tautology. > > - Simplifying the ebuild naming - since suffix is always "ebuild" > > there is no need to use an indirection > > > > - Fixing the list because "suffix is ebuild" now is redundant > > Uhm. That part of the patch doesn't apply, and the revision against > which you're basing it isn't in the repository. Where did you get > 'b78fde2' from? > Oh. I have over 900 lines diff already. Just pulling out the obvious changes before moving on to the more subjective and debatable ones.