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On Thu, Aug 05, 2021 at 05:57:06PM -0700, 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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I disagree that categories are a mistake. For one thing, they help with |
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situations where different upstream packages have the same name (we have |
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two docker packages for example, both named docker by their upstreams), |
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and in my opinion they help keep the tree organized. It is nice to be |
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able to do something like `ls -d <category>` and check out somewhat |
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related groups of packages. |
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I will agree that C above is subjective. |
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> (d) Recategorizing means a bunch of stuff has to be updated. |
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All of the updates are much easier to do since we use git, so this isn't |
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a concern. You can set this up so it hits the tree all at once. |
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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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Yes, I think they are useful like I said above. |
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So add me to the list of folks supporting recatagorizing the packages. |
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William |
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