On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 13:55:40 +0200 Maciej Mrozowski <reave...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday 24 of June 2011 09:55:19 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 09:52:03 +0200
> >
> > Jesús J. Guerrero Botella <jesus.guerrero.bote...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > You might not like it, but Gentoo categories have always been
> > > directories, not words into metadata.xml.
> >
> > So tags are in some way related to categories then?
>
> IMHO the best approach is to forget about categories and:
>
> - make package names unique identifiers (it's not that hard, renaming
> stuff in app-xemacs mostly) - categories would serve no purpose as id
> anymore (though may need to be provided as backward compatibility -
> but with symlinks to ebuilds/${PN} inside)
And we'll all be doing a lot of ugly ${PN/python-/} and so on. Simplify
things, not make harder just because of some wannabe tag fashion.
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Best regards,
Michał Górny
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