On Tue, September 28, 2010 6:58 am, PrzemysÅaw PaweÅczyk wrote: > Doesn't it seem to you like being a bit untidy? And, btw, for how long > "the legacy" will be going on...? With so much changes between 2.6.3 > and 2.8.0? Do you really think/know that "the legacy" systems will be > kept running yet after new release (which one)? > > Manpower shortages define status quo, no doubt about it, as > pkg_radd/pkg_search are still unchanged with amd64 links.
I appreciate what you're saying about having things be clear to users, but this is the alternative to something that would be more confusing. 'amd64' was hardcoded into a number of package tools, including early versions of pkg_radd. The choice is either leave it untidy with a note about the reason for the directory, or break functionality for older machines. Someone was still running a number of 2.0 machines in an environment that couldn't be easily upgraded, last I asked about this, so untidy is a better choice, in this case. The long-term answer that I would prefer is to not have people need to navigate a package hierarchy at all, and instead have the appropriate software selected automatically. We're closer to that with the pkg_radd tool.
