Re: [Scrollkeeper-devel] Category Trees

[Rich M. <rd...@cf...>]

At 1:58 AM -0200 11/25/00, Ali Abdin wrote:
>If we want truly unique id's then we just use the 'uuid-gen'
>utility found on most machines.

Its not on FreeBSD (or even mentioned in /usr/ports/INDEX),
though I'm sure it could be added.

My opinion, however, is that there is no reason to use ugly, long,
and easily forgotten keys, in pursuit of mechanical perfection,
when better ones are available.

More to the point, it is very handy for folks discussing a given
package to be able to refer to it clearly and unambiguously.  I
think my proposal serves here, but that the uuid-gen keys do not.

-t
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