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On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:16:54 -0500 |
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William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 08:48:25PM +0200, Thomas Beierlein wrote: |
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> > On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:27:47 -0500 |
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> > William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote: |
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> > > All, |
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> > > I have recently noticed that our amateur radio applications are |
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> > > in the category media-radio. |
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> > > Amateur Radio is not considered part of the media, so I would |
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> > > like to propose renaming this category to app-hamradio, or |
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> > > possibly moving the amateur radio applications to app-hamradio if |
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> > > there are things in media-radio which are not amateur radio |
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> > > related. |
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> > I like the idea very much. But I am an radio amateur and therefore |
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> > I am a little bit biased :). I was always confused to find them in |
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> > media-radio. If we do the move please count on me. |
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> I am an amateur radio operator as well, and that is why putting the |
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> ham radio apps in"media-radio" bothers me. Ham radio is not part of |
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> the media. |
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> > But to be honest there are some amateur (ham) radio related |
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> > packages in other categories too (e.g. app-misc/aldo - a cw morse |
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> > trainer, app-text/7plus - a packet radio text encoder, ..). So |
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> > maybe a general cleanup would be good. |
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> > A quick count in media-radio gives 12 packages for amateur radio |
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> > and 2 others (the second one coming in just today). In sunrise |
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> > there are 11 amateur radio related packages and 0 others. That |
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> > means a move to app-hamradio would leave media-radio nearly empty. |
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> I would say that if the sunrise packages eventually get moved into |
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> portage, they should go in app-hamradio instead of media-radio, then |
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> maybe we could move the other ham radio packages over there, but then |
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> what would be the best choice for whatever is left in media-radio? |
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I wonder if there is a formal approach to add new categories to |
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the tree or rename existing ones? |
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Thomas |