David Klaftenegger wrote:
>>>Why not just create a symlink to the package in the category it *also*
>>>should be in?
[snip]
>>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)...
[snip]
> 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?

As someone stated on #gentoo-dev, is CVS/rsync happy with symlinks? Or
would it need another functionality to Portage to create those links in
the "updating cache" phase after sync?

-jkt

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