On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:17:30 -0400 Ned Ludd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| > 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.

Uh, end users get consistent and sensible categorising when stuff is
properly categorised. It's not exactly consistent to have some foo
packages in app-misc and some in app-foo now, is it?

| Portage still can't get it right.

Specifics?

| 'fixpackages' does not correct the installed vdb content so the
| problems extend past any of my pet projects.

A few people having to rebuild a few binary packages now and again (and
incidentally, it'd take you even less time to fix fixpackages) is far
less of an issue than keeping an already way too huge tree slightly
more manageable.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh
Mail            : ciaran dot mccreesh at blueyonder.co.uk


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