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Re: New section in potato?



Previously Ben Collins wrote:
> Currently the archive is symlinked to high heaven (ie. everything in
> binary-all is symlinked to in all of the binary-(arch) directories).
> This wont be any more difficult to non-unix archives than it already is.

And from what I hear occasionally managing that forest of symlinks is
a lot of work. Making it even harder for them sounds somewhat unreasonable.

Also, almost any scheme that involves directory structures as a selection
mechanism is bound to fail with the current growth in number of packages.

Wichert.

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