Stuart Herbert wrote:
> Kevin F. Quinn wrote:
>> An advantage to this approach is that package moves just become aliases
>> - existing stuff doesn't break yet you get the new categorisation as
>> well.
> 
> That's actually a disadvantage.  The whole point of moving a package is
> to take it *out* of its existing category.  Just adding an alias into a
> second category makes the tree more of a mess - not less.

+1

I really dislike this idea of aliasing ebuild categories, yuck... Way
better to fix what needs to be fixed to make package moves as smooth and
seamless as possible.


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jakub

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