On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 12:12:02 -0400, John Covici wrote: > > The devs are deprecating the flat-file version of package.*, I > > have been gettings warnings during emerges indicating that they > > all need to be changed to the directory layout. > > > > If you ignore this eventually emerge will stop working. I've > > already taken the few minutes to move all my boxes to the > > directory layout, and split out the packages to individual > > files. You don't have to go that far though, the entries can stay > > in one file under the new directory structure. > > I wonder why they are doing this, I find the single file much easier > to deal with and its easier to make sure I don't have duplicate > entries this way.
Horses for courses I suppose. I prefer a separate file for a package and its dependencies. Then if I uninstall that package, I can simply delete the file. eix-test-obsolete should find duplicate entries, although that hasn't been an issue so far. -- Neil Bothwick The considered application of terror is also a form of communication.
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