Solar, I realize you meant this as a general statement of opinion and not a flame-baiter, but can you elaborate on:
On Sunday 05 June 2005 11:37, Ned Ludd wrote: > Invalidates binary package trees. My (wrong?) understanding was that this is addressed when portage runs a fixpackages (otherwise what's it doing to all those binary packages?). I ask because its no secret that I'm working on a split up of dev-perl from the 500+ packages to a better organized, reasonable scenario where packages are categorized based on, well, category :) rather than on the fact that they "contain some perl bits or module bits, stuff them in dev-perl". Just curious, it's not my intent to hurt anyone's trees along the way :) -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list