Re: Package Pool Proposal

[edrx@inx.com.br (Eduardo Ochs)]

Just a small idea on hashing packages by prefixes. Writing a perl
function that finds the prefix for a package using a regexp is simple
like that:

  sub packagedir {
    $_[0] =~ m/^(doc|emacs|gstep|kernel|lg|mail|man|net|perl|python|svga|tcl|tk\|xserver|lib.|.)/o;
    return $1;
  }

and the list of directories, for this (crappy) selection of prefixes,
is simply:

  2 3 9 a b c d c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
  liba libb libc libd libe libf libg libh libi libj libk libl libm
  libn libo libp libq libr libs libt libu libv libw libx liby libz
  doc emacs gstep kernel lg mail man net perl python svga tcl tk xserver

By putting the regexp and the list of directories at the obvious doc
places both the scripts and the users will be happy (though I confess
that I used to like the classification by section...)


  Cheers,
    Eduardo Ochs
    edrx@inx.com.br
    (not a developer yet)



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