Re: [gentoo-dev] New category: net-voip

[Ned Ludd]

On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 14:53 +0200, Stefan Schweizer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the herd of voip packages is constantly growing and according to
> "herdstat -p voip" we already have 60 packages in the voip herd. Those are
> currently in the categories net-misc, net-im, net-libs, dev-libs and
> media-libs. Most of them would fit perfectly into a new net-voip category.
> Those are enough packages to allow the creation of a new category.
>
> More important than the current packages I think it is to put new packages
> into the more precise net-voip instead of net-misc/net-im. For example some
> packages in my overlay [1] maintained by the fellow gentoo users peper and
> fuoco. Also there is a lot of stuff waiting in stkn's private voip overlay
>
> The 47 voip packages in net-misc and net-im should be moved over to the new
> category definitely, you can get the list with:
> herdstat -p voip | grep -e net-im -e net-misc
> From the others I think dev-libs/ilbc-rfc3951 should be moved, too.


Creation of a new categories is fine. pkg moves are bad. 
See the countless other posting on this subject of why pkg 
moves are bad. 

> Any objections, problems with the plan, comments?

Sure I'll step up and say I object to the part of your plan which 
involves a shitton of pkgmoves. Moving pkgs from existing categories 
into another category causes numerous problems that portage can't solve 
as easy as the rest of us might think so please just don't do that 
part. I've got no objection to the creation of a new category for *new* 
packages.


>
>
> [1] http://overlays.gentoo.org/svn/dev/genstef/net-im
>
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Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>
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