Hi,
On 3/6/06, Michael Renner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> as suggested by Mike in http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123335,
> here's my proposal for changing the layout of the distfiles tree:
> Introducing an additional directory hierarchy should fix this, and is
> the common solution for this problem for various projects, be it debian
> [1], cpan [2], slackware [3], etc.
Why not have the directory structure follow the package category
structure? E.g. the distfiles for package foo/bar goes into the
directory ${MIRROR_ROOT}/foo/bar?
This should be easy enough to support in Portage, and if applied to
the /usr/portage/distfiles directory too, would solve a few other
problems. It also has the advantage of grouping the distfiles in a
way that users would find natural to browse.
There is the problem of what happens when a package moves, but I think
that's easily solved too.
Best regards,
Stu
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