Stroller wrote:
>>>> * Unique ID strings for packages, zynot style. Messy as hell though,
>>>> DEPEND="foo/bar {12379812AD7382164BD87678652438FC65E43A2}" doesn't have
>>>> the same kind of ring to it...
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> I'm going to ignore that. This thread started because the current
> category/name naming convention causes interesting conditions. I
> appreciate that generally Microsoft Are Not Our Favourite Software
> Company, but giving them as an example doesn't inherently make unique
> IDs bad, and 128-bit ones are not necessary in this case.

Actually ciaranm's example contained 39 hex digits, which leads to
624bit IDs :-).

-jkt

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