[sbopkg-users] Feature proposal

[alkos333]

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Mauro Giachero
<mauro.giachero at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 8:16 PM, Robby Workman <rw at rlworkman.net> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 05:52:43 -0500 alkos333 <me at alkos333.net> wrote:
>>
>> > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 4:10 AM, Mauro Giachero wrote:
>> > > Anyway, why a single queue? I think storing one queue per
>> > > (relevant) package would be far more flexible, given that sbopkg
>> > > makes loading and merging multiple queue files really easy. And of
>> > > course, somebody could also build up a queue archive.
>> >
>> > I know it' snot as easy as it looks, but it's doable.  One file
>> > because I don't have to worry about merging them and running several
>> > files.  I can just load one and tell it to run through the entire
>> > thing.  Works like a charm here :)
>>
>> Maybe I'm not fully understanding the goal here, but what if sbopkg
>> were able to treat a queue as a package?  IOW, you would be able to do
>> something like this:
>>
>> queue_all=queue1,queue2,queue3,...
>
> Being able to do this kind of thing has puzzled me for some time (despite me
> being probably the only sbopkg user not using saved queues).
> The problematic side here is being able to actually manage (e.g. create)
> such queue. sbopkg code assumes that a queue is a flat list of packages, and
> changing it to manage a nested structure is far from easy :-/.
>
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> Mauro Giachero
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Why don't you use queues?  How many packages do you have installed?

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