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William L. Thomson Jr. posted on Wed, 30 Aug 2017 14:01:08 -0400 as |
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> This is more food for thought to start a discussion on new category |
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> names. With Wayland becoming more of a reality every day. I think some |
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> of the x11-* categories may need to change. Stuff in there may not be |
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> bound to X and can run on Wayland or X. |
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> Examples x11-libs/gtk+ |
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> x11-terms/terminology |
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> Not sure what better "universal" category names would be. But seems it |
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> maybe time for a discussion on such and some new categories and package |
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> moves. Given thus stuff can run under X or Wayland. Not sure x11 makes |
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> sense anymore. |
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> I can do this on my own in my own overlay. But likely best for official |
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> categories as this effects the tree not just others overlays etc. I do |
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> not really have any ideas for better names. Just seems like a need. |
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That could be a lot of package-move churn. It arguably might make sense |
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to keep the current names "for legacy reasons". (Or not. Just |
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speculating here.) |
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FWIW, there was some related discussion awhile back on USE=X, proposing |
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USE=gui instead, but I don't know what became of it. Perhaps gui-* |
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category names if that's actually moving forward, in ordered to maintain |
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a bit of consistency and for lack of a better idea? |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |