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On 24 Jul 2004, at 20:34, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> Pieter Van den Abeele said: |
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>> The reasoning behind both: |
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>> - app-macos contains apps that do not depend on anything but a regular |
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>> mac os x system. A good example of such an app is the GPL'ed OS X |
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>> Desktop Manager which implements virtual desktops on OS X. |
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>> http://wsmanager.sourceforge.net/index.php Most of the time these |
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>> packages are Mac OS X only, open source and don't fit any other |
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>> category. |
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> I have a tough time believing there are any applications with functions |
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> written in languages that cannot be functionally or linguistically |
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> classified. The architecture/OS on which a program runs shouldn't be a |
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> basis for a category. |
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I would say that there will always be apps that don't fit into the |
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packaging system. Pieter raised one example where it is a window |
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manager (in some sense) but not X11, so it wouldn't fit in x11-wm or |
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any x11-* categories. I'm sure there will be others, and I'm not |
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particularly keen that we should put them in app-misc just because |
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that's the catchall. I think a app-macos is a good compromise in this |
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scenario. |
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But there are definitely many other macosx open source apps that would |
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fit under the Gentoo Portage structure, like colloquy would fit in |
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net-irc, adium would fit in net-im, class-dump would fit in dev-util, |
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etc. |
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>> - sys-darwin contains ebuilds for software that is very very darwin |
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>> (mostly kerneldriver) specific. I was thinking of things like (just a |
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>> quick cut/paste): |
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> Same point as above. |
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Do we have a sys-drivers or something equivalent? I would argue that |
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this is needed because the sheer amount of drivers available. We don't |
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want to start polluting sys-kernels with darwin drivers, do we? |
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HOWEVER, I agree that it is premature to setup a category where there |
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are no plans to even merge these drivers into portage for the next |
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month or so. |
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Cheers, |
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Alastair 'liquidx' Tse |
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>> Gentoo Developer (Python/GNOME/CJK/PDA/Bluetooth) |
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>> http://www.liquidx.net/ | http://dev.gentoo.org/~liquidx/ |
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