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On Monday, June 2, 2003, at 09:37 PM, Troy Dack wrote: |
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> I'll throw my two bob in ... |
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> What about: |
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> media-players |
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> or |
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> sound-compose (sound creation apps) |
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> sound-players (players, duh) |
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> sound-libs (sound related bits 'n' bobs .. alsa?) |
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> sound-tools (mixers etc..) |
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> The only drawback with specific sound-* categories is that a good |
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> portion of players (in particular) play more than just sound (ie: video |
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> as well). |
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Right, this is where we end up, with a bunch of categories that still |
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aren't quite perfect. Oddly enough(!), we went through this process, |
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trying to come up with a bunch of sound-* or audio-* categories. The |
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end result was never quite as clean as grouping things together in |
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something like media-music. |
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In my mind, the good thing about the media-music approach is that it |
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doesn't have to be the end of the process. If more sub-division is |
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needed of media-sound (or media-music) it can be done. |
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Perhaps some of the things in our list (for instance, JACK) don't |
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belong in media-music and we'll end up making new categories for them |
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in the future (media-routing?) However, right now media-sound is all |
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over the place, the trees hide the forest, etc. |
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Someone coming to gentoo to do music is going to notice media-music, as |
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easily as they will find media-sound, but, they are much more likely to |
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find what they are looking for in category containing 50 ebuilds than |
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150! |
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j. |
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