On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 10:51:51 +0900 Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Without a list of future features, you think the best way to go must | be the least agile? As Zac said, all that matters to keep full | compatibility on the side of the readers is to add a level of | indirection. All your reasoning above falls apart in the face of that | simple *logical* request.
Every problem can be solved by adding another layer of indirection, except for the problem of having too many layers of indirection. This layer you are proposing is not going to do anything useful. It's merely adding indirection for the sake of it. There's no more need for this than there is need for a two thousand line XML DTD which allows us to specify the author's date of birth using an ancient Sumerian calendar. Come up with a full specification of how Portage will handle multiple repositories, and get that specification agreed upon by the people who will end up having to use it. *Then* come back and ask me to add in more complexity. I'm not going to over-complicate things to deal with random hypothetical half-baked speculation. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (I can kill you with my brain) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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