2011/6/27 Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org:
On 06/24/2011 12:52 AM, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote:
2011/6/24 Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org:
On 06/22/2011 11:15 PM, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote:
Symlinks are clean, and portage has
always been file-oriented so I see no problem with using them
On 06/27/2011 07:23 AM, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote:
I still don't understand why
A) you need to build a project, a glep, whatever the course of action
is, I am bad at bureaucracy.
B) you need to code the solution, to fix What?
Some people requested a tags feature. I'm not sure if fix
On 06/24/2011 12:52 AM, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote:
2011/6/24 Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org:
On 06/22/2011 11:15 PM, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote:
Symlinks are clean, and portage has
always been file-oriented so I see no problem with using them for
this. All we need is to deference
On Tuesday 21 of June 2011 16:24:07 Michał Górny wrote:
Hello,
As we discussed for a while, the media-sound/ category has grown very
large and it may be a good idea to split it.
Right now, it contains audio players, editing software, converters,
sound systems and a lot of other utilities
On Friday 24 of June 2011 09:55:19 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 09:52:03 +0200
Jesús J. Guerrero Botella jesus.guerrero.bote...@gmail.com wrote:
You might not like it, but Gentoo categories have always been
directories, not words into metadata.xml.
So tags are in some way
On 25 June 2011 23:55, Maciej Mrozowski reave...@gmail.com wrote:
IMHO the best approach is to forget about categories and:
- make package names unique identifiers (it's not that hard, renaming stuff in
app-xemacs mostly) - categories would serve no purpose as id anymore (though
may need to
On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 13:55:40 +0200
Maciej Mrozowski reave...@gmail.com wrote:
On Friday 24 of June 2011 09:55:19 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 09:52:03 +0200
Jesús J. Guerrero Botella jesus.guerrero.bote...@gmail.com wrote:
You might not like it, but Gentoo categories have
On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 00:22:39 +1200
Kent Fredric kentfred...@gmail.com wrote:
Perhaps we need a new way to apply metadata to a whole host of
packages?
Also, categories have extra use for simple convenience of their native
groupings, ie: I've been known to set USE flags/KEYWORDS that apply to
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 08:22, Kent Fredric kentfred...@gmail.com wrote:
I think something else that may be important to consider if one is
eliminating category directories is how we'll replace the utility
currently provided by category/metadata.xml
Some things are simply grossly impractical
2011/6/24 Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org:
On 06/22/2011 11:15 PM, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote:
Symlinks are clean, and portage has
always been file-oriented so I see no problem with using them for
this. All we need is to deference the symlink to find the real name of
the package and put it
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 09:52:03 +0200
Jesús J. Guerrero Botella jesus.guerrero.bote...@gmail.com wrote:
You might not like it, but Gentoo categories have always been
directories, not words into metadata.xml.
So tags are in some way related to categories then?
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Ciaran McCreesh
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2011/6/24 Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com:
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 09:52:03 +0200
Jesús J. Guerrero Botella jesus.guerrero.bote...@gmail.com wrote:
You might not like it, but Gentoo categories have always been
directories, not words into metadata.xml.
So tags are in some way
2011/6/23 Kent Fredric kentfred...@gmail.com:
On 23 June 2011 09:46, Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote:
In order for this metadata to be of any use to a user, it would need
to have some way to facilitate its use, whether it be a fake generated
directory of symlinks, or a dedicated program (
On 06/22/2011 11:15 PM, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote:
Symlinks are clean, and portage has
always been file-oriented so I see no problem with using them for
this. All we need is to deference the symlink to find the real name of
the package and put it in world instead of the symlinked name,
On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 16:24:07 +0200
Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote:
Hello,
As we discussed for a while, the media-sound/ category has grown
very large and it may be a good idea to split it.
Right now, it contains audio players, editing software, converters,
sound systems and a lot
On 22 June 2011 21:38, Joshua Saddler nightmo...@gentoo.org wrote:
Whatever happened to implementing tags for the Portage tree? The idea
behind tags was to avoid spamming users with more and more
directories, especially for apps that are hard to categorize. Which,
Agreed. From the perspective
On 06/22/2011 02:38 AM, Joshua Saddler wrote:
Whatever happened to implementing tags for the Portage tree? The idea
behind tags was to avoid spamming users with more and more
directories, especially for apps that are hard to categorize. Which,
arguably, is most of them. We have tags for weblog
On 23 June 2011 09:46, Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote:
It could be implemented with a metadata.xml extension, or possibly an
new ebuild variable. A GLEP would be a good way to propose such an
extension.
I'd myself see metadata.xml or ebuild variables, on their own, less
than useful.
For
On 06/22/2011 04:58 PM, Kent Fredric wrote:
On 23 June 2011 09:46, Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote:
It could be implemented with a metadata.xml extension, or possibly an
new ebuild variable. A GLEP would be a good way to propose such an
extension.
I'd myself see metadata.xml or ebuild
Hello,
As we discussed for a while, the media-sound/ category has grown very
large and it may be a good idea to split it.
Right now, it contains audio players, editing software, converters,
sound systems and a lot of other utilities related to sound. Splitting
that up would make looking up
2011/6/21 Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org:
Hello,
As we discussed for a while, the media-sound/ category has grown very
large and it may be a good idea to split it.
Right now, it contains audio players, editing software, converters,
sound systems and a lot of other utilities related to
On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 16:40:59 +0200
Jesús J. Guerrero Botella jesus.guerrero.bote...@gmail.com wrote:
Then move fonts elsewhere or just leave them as they are.
x11-fonts? :P
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Best regards,
Michał Górny
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On 06/21/2011 08:40 AM, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote:
2011/6/21 Michał Górnymgo...@gentoo.org:
Hello,
As we discussed for a while, the media-sound/ category has grown very
large and it may be a good idea to split it.
Right now, it contains audio players, editing software, converters,
sound
On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 17:21:44 +0200
Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote:
On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 16:40:59 +0200
Jesús J. Guerrero Botella jesus.guerrero.bote...@gmail.com wrote:
Then move fonts elsewhere or just leave them as they are.
x11-fonts? :P
Why? Fonts may not be related to X or
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