Re: [gentoo-dev] multiple categories for a package

2005-05-17 Thread Marius Mauch
Alin Nastac wrote: Marius Mauch wrote: CVS doesn't support symlinks. But subversion does ;) Doesn't help here. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] multiple categories for a package

2005-05-17 Thread Alin Nastac
Marius Mauch wrote: > > CVS doesn't support symlinks. > But subversion does ;) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] multiple categories for a package

2005-05-17 Thread Marius Mauch
David Klaftenegger wrote: Georgi Georgiev wrote: Would it be inappropriate to start bitching (again) about a flat tree where each package can go in multiple categories? So now, that I've read all messages in this thread, I needed a point to start at.. I guess my approach isn't a way to go, but I

Re: [gentoo-dev] multiple categories for a package

2005-05-17 Thread Jan Kundrát
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

Re: [gentoo-dev] multiple categories for a package

2005-05-17 Thread David Klaftenegger
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. >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] multiple categories for a package (was: [gentoo-dev] Re: New category proposal)

2005-05-16 Thread Brian Harring
On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 10:28:48PM +0200, David Klaftenegger wrote: > Georgi Georgiev wrote: > > Would it be inappropriate to start bitching (again) about a flat tree > > where each package can go in multiple categories? > > So now, that I've read all messages in this thread, I needed a point to

[gentoo-dev] multiple categories for a package (was: [gentoo-dev] Re: New category proposal)

2005-05-16 Thread David Klaftenegger
Georgi Georgiev wrote: > Would it be inappropriate to start bitching (again) about a flat tree > where each package can go in multiple categories? So now, that I've read all messages in this thread, I needed a point to start at.. I guess my approach isn't a way to go, but I can't find the reason