Re: [MinGW-dvlpr] RFC: mingw-get package group hierarchies

[Charles W. <cwi...@us...>]

On 11/1/2011 4:15 PM, Earnie wrote:
> Keith Marshall wrote:
> Elided lots of detail ...
>>
>> Comments?
>>
> 
> When looking at FRS/mingw/files IMO at most we should see
[elided lots of detail]

Earnie, you're talking about "how the FRS storage is structured". Keith
is talking about "How the mingw-git GUI will present categories" --
which, in my opinion, are *two completely separate issues*.

The answers to those two questions may contains some superficial
similarities, such as "MinGW should have a 'Contributed' subdir" AND
"MinGW should have a 'Contributed' affiliate group" -- but that's
immaterial here.

The Affiliate Groups can be as wild and woolly as we want them to,
because there is an important difference between AG's and the FRS: a
single package can simultaneously be part of multiple AG's (conceptually
speaking; dunno if mingw-get groks that or not) -- but I *really* don't
want to have to maintain sym/hardlinks on the frs to allow packages to
live in two different places.

--
Chuck