[Exherbo-dev] Replacing categories take 27 zillion
Ciaran McCreesh
ciaran.mccreesh at googlemail.com
Fri Jan 30 20:50:44 GMT 2009
Here's another idea:
* Most packages are in the 'empty' category. So /gcc, /paludis and so
on.
* But Ruby modules go in 'ruby'. So ruby/syntax etc. Ditto for other
library things where name collisions are common. We'd also have
vim/blah and probably aspell/blah. These categories are unimportant,
so foo resolves to /foo (with a warning), not bar/foo.
* Name collisions that aren't caused by any of the above kind of things
get solved by giving one of the packages a different name.
* On-disk layout doesn't have to correspond to the above (we at least
want to use something like /default/ for the empty category). We can
work this out later -- either we go with /packages/default/XX/xxblah
(although that probably sucks thanks to kstupid kde kpackage knames
and lots of libeverything) or we do something cleverer.
Then we start including trove (or tags, or whatever) categorisations
in packages to make searching easier.
--
Ciaran McCreesh
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