On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 01:05:20 -0700 Brian Harring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Just so we're clear, I probably will wedgie anyone who suggests | trying to extend the existing tree format with N categories per pkg- | sounds nice on paper, but it makes lookup a serious pita- | sys-apps/portage, we'll pretend it's actually located in sys-apps, | and it's also in category 'pkg-managers'. An atom states | 'pkg-managers/portage'; how does a pkg manager do a lookup for it?
If you're looking to preserve linear / log-linear lookup times, you do it by having two types of object: 'real' packages and package aliases. I tried implementing it a while back for Paludis just to see if it'd be of any use. There're a few cases where it might be neat but there's no way it's worth trying to get Portage to do such a thing... -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail : ciaran dot mccreesh at blueyonder.co.uk -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
