2009/2/16 Ciaran McCreesh <[email protected]>
> On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 02:23:50 -0500 > Erik Osheim <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 09:56:29PM +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > Because then, depending upon what you mean by 'first 50', either > > > Paludis has to hunt around in every single directory to find > > > something, or if you add a new package called, say, xaa, you have > > > to move a bunch of other packages because you've changed what the > > > first 50 is. > > > > Instead of using the first two characters or last two characters would > > you want to use the first two letters of a hash key? That would > > probably spread out packages pretty well, and would work no matter > > what future naming schemes people come up with. > > sha1 mod 36 in base 36 works perfectly for every case, but it's a > nuisance for humans, so we're trying to avoid that. > > -- > Ciaran McCreesh > > _______________________________________________ > Exherbo-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.exherbo.org/mailman/listinfo/exherbo-dev > > And how about using sha1 mod 36 for paludis and symlinks with readable names for humans?
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