Re: New priority?
On Tue, 19 May 1998, Rev. Joseph Carter wrote:
> On Tue, May 19, 1998 at 08:29:15PM +0100, Jules Bean wrote:
> > > > with a good navigation you could skip the whole lang/perl tree if you are not
> > > > interested in it.
> > >
> > > This would be nice although we'd have to work the categories a little for
> > > things that fit in more than one place.
> >
> > Actually, if we're opting for a more 'descriptive' hierarchy, I see no
> > reason why something shouldn't appear in two places, if it seems
> > appropriate in two places. The principle of least surprise, as
> > interpreted by me, suggested that I should be able to find LWP in
> > lang/perl/modules/www as well as in web/cgi/scripttools (or whatever).
>
> It could be done with symlinks I suspect.. Anyone have complaints about
> this thought?
Yup.
The information should be in the Packages file - simply have more than one
entry in the 'Sections:' line (or whatever we call it). This way dselect
(or rather, its successor) knows that the two packages are the same.
Jules
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