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> On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 2:44 PM Georgy Yakovlev <gyakovlev@g.o> wrote: |
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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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Gentoo portage has an awful lot of categories. |
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In contrast, Void Linux has all packages not subdivided into categories. |
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I counted for FreeBSD ports, 63 categories; pkgsrc, 48 categories (NetBSD, but ported to other mostly (quasi-)Unix OSes). |
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My count could have been just slightly off. |
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I count 165 for Gentoo, could be slightly off. |
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I count 61 for Arbor, from Exherbo. |
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I count 125 categories for Haiku ports, which is modeled after Gentoo but not nearly as many packages. |
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Tom |
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