Re: Package Pool Proposal

[Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@msu.edu>]

Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ualberta.ca> writes:

> I think going by last letter is not a good idea because it is hard to
> predict what a pacakge name will end in, consider zlib[2,2g,g2] I can
> never remember what it ends in!

I'm getting into this discussion late, so maybe I don't
understand the proposal, but won't we always be able to refer to
packages by their location in a distribution?  I think that
having to look in the package pool directories directly under
that system would be pretty rare, right?