Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New app-eselect category?
Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 18:47:48
Message-Id: 20090526184745.GF4754@ca.inter.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] New app-eselect category? by Ulrich Mueller
1 090526 Ulrich Mueller wrote:
2 > We could move the 27 eselect-* packages to a new app-eselect category;
3 > eselect itself would stay in app-admin.
4 >> I hate package moves, so is it really *really* necessary?
5 > Of course it is only a matter of organisation (as most package moves are).
6 > Since there's also no agreement on the name of the category,
7 > let's postpone it. Maybe the situation will be clearer
8 > after the release of the Universal Select Tool.
9
10 As a mere user who tries to keep track of his pkgs,
11 may I register a '+1' for keeping categories reasonably small
12 & for retaining the 'major-minor' syntax of the dir names ?
13 So the new category should help us users slightly
14 & 'app-select' looks like the most appropriate name for the new dir.
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