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> On 6 Aug 2021, at 23:27, Louis Sautier <sbraz@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 06/08/2021 02:57, Alec Warner wrote: |
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>> On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 2:44 PM Georgy Yakovlev <gyakovlev@g.o> wrote: |
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>>> Hi, |
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>>> We've been collecting more and more container related packages in |
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>>> app-emulation/* |
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>>> What do you think about finally moving those packages to separate category? |
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>> As always my opinion is that: |
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>> (a) Categories were a design mistake. |
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>> (b) The mistake is hard to fix. |
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>> (c) It's basically low-value to try to 'correctly' categorize packages |
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>> because of A. |
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>> (d) Recategorizing means a bunch of stuff has to be updated. |
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>> Do people actually care what category things are in? I just use |
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>> --search or eix or whatever and the category is just this...bad |
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>> concept we attach to packages for silly historical reasons.. |
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>> -A |
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> Hi, |
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> I also care about categories: if I want to find a Python MySQL library, I'll run "eix -C dev-python mysql" (3 results) instead of a plain "eix mysql" (33 results). And, as William said, they really help with ambiguous package names such as docker. |
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This is definitely my approach too. |
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Anyway, I'm supportive of the new category. If it makes things clearer for people, why not? |
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best, |
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sam |
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