[gentoo-dev] sys-apps is too big

[Ciaran McCreesh]

sys-apps is huge, and that makes it a nuisance to work with. I'd like to
get as much non-core-system stuff out of sys-apps and moved into other
categories if possible.

>From looking at the apps that're there, the following rough categories
sort of maybe stand out a bit:

sys-apps:     keep this around, but for core stuff only
sys-misc:     sys-utils? sys-tools? non-core tools that're still systemy
sys-process:  process and cron utilities
sys-power:    power management related apps
sys-cpu:      cpu management related apps
sys-storage:  or move stuff to sys-fs?
sys-network:  or move stuff to net-*?
sys-hardware: other hardware related apps (maybe splittable further?)
sys-bsd:      see note below

I made a really rough list of possible members, which is here:

http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm/tmp/sys-apps.txt

It's not a very good list, and the categories proposed aren't very good
either, but it's a rough starting point. Feedback strongly encouraged,
since the current list isn't anywhere near implementation-level sanity.

Regarding sys-bsd... When the *bsd folks get their thing working, we're
going to end up with a fair number of bsdish things in the tree. Since
sys-apps is too frickin' huge, would sys-bsd make sense?

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