Brian Harring wrote: > On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 10:28:48PM +0200, David Klaftenegger wrote: >>Why not just create a symlink to the package in the category it *also* >>should be in? >> >>For example, net-mail/mutt could be a symlink to ../mail-client/mutt, >>allowing to find it in both categories. >> > It's a better approach then tagging it into the metadata imo, since it > forces unique cat/package still. Won't play nice if the tree's fs > doesn't like symlinks though (fat)...
Well, instead of a symlink it could also be a textfile containing the package it points to... but who wants to use a floppy fs for the tree anyways? > Also doesn't seem incredibly useful to me, although keep in mind I'm > the lazy bugger who thinks what's there currently suffices :) > ~brian The discussion lasted long enough for me to think about the problem; I personally would save 10 seconds to a minute every now and then if there were multiple categories, so I'd like it, but I don't know if that little gain would justify the effort to implement it. Greetings, David -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
