2011/6/27 Jesús J. Guerrero Botella <jesus.guerrero.bote...@gmail.com>: > That still doesn't answer my question anyway: both features (symlinks > and +65k files on a single dir) are incompatible with fat32. And > someone said fat32 compatibility is a feature we want (still can't > guess why, but well, be consequent...). Obviously, we want fat32 > compatibility when it comes to arguing against symlinks, which have > always been with us by the way, but that's not important when we talk > about other things that are not compatible with fat32.
I'm not sure where you're getting 65k files. Unless I misinterpreted everything everyone else was saying, every package would still have its own directory. There are fewer than 20k even with a bunch of overlays installed. Regardless, you might check the other (other) thread; I think we're probably going to go quick and not-necessarily-dirty with sets to get 99% of what we're looking for almost trivially. 2011/6/27 Jesús J. Guerrero Botella <jesus.guerrero.bote...@gmail.com>: > C) "ls $PORTDIR/whatever-category" is a command that's way simpler > than the one you posted. > It's also fundamentally broken because one package can only be in one category and their expansion has not historically been speedy. Tags are a non-exclusive one-to-many relationship. So a package can have as many tags as it needs, and users will be able to leverage tags alone or in combinations to find things they want or need. > I don't even use tags for my music collections That's very curious, and I wouldn't mind talking about why that is off-list (not quite joking; that's really interesting). So to sum it up, we're fixing package navigation and discovery because Gentoo is about choice. Even 15,000 packages is too many to have to play "guess the category", and it's cruel to expect users (including ourselves) to know everything in the tree at all times. It's in all our best interest to make it easy to know what choices are available so we can get back to more important things. Tags help further this ideal.
