On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 15:15 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 09:34:37 -0400 Ned Ludd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | Creation of a new categories is fine. pkg moves are bad. > | See the countless other posting on this subject of why pkg > | moves are bad. > > Uh, as far as I recall, you've yet to come up with any technical > explanation other than "it breaks one of my pet projects"... The gains > of consistency and manageability far outweigh the minor inconvenience.
There is no consistency for end users when stuff keeps getting shuffled around. Portage still can't get it right. 'fixpackages' does not correct the installed vdb content so the problems extend past any of my pet projects. -- Ned Ludd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo Linux -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
