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... [snip] > 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 -- cd /local/pub && more beer > /dev/mouth
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