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From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Categories for GUI stuff x11 and wayland
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 19:37:50
Message-Id: pan$e6cec$77ac2f02$d455df18$542973fe@cox.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Categories for GUI stuff x11 and wayland by "William L. Thomson Jr."
1 William L. Thomson Jr. posted on Wed, 30 Aug 2017 14:01:08 -0400 as
2 excerpted:
3
4 > This is more food for thought to start a discussion on new category
5 > names. With Wayland becoming more of a reality every day. I think some
6 > of the x11-* categories may need to change. Stuff in there may not be
7 > bound to X and can run on Wayland or X.
8 >
9 > Examples x11-libs/gtk+
10 > x11-terms/terminology
11 >
12 > Not sure what better "universal" category names would be. But seems it
13 > maybe time for a discussion on such and some new categories and package
14 > moves. Given thus stuff can run under X or Wayland. Not sure x11 makes
15 > sense anymore.
16 >
17 > I can do this on my own in my own overlay. But likely best for official
18 > categories as this effects the tree not just others overlays etc. I do
19 > not really have any ideas for better names. Just seems like a need.
20
21 That could be a lot of package-move churn. It arguably might make sense
22 to keep the current names "for legacy reasons". (Or not. Just
23 speculating here.)
24
25 FWIW, there was some related discussion awhile back on USE=X, proposing
26 USE=gui instead, but I don't know what became of it. Perhaps gui-*
27 category names if that's actually moving forward, in ordered to maintain
28 a bit of consistency and for lack of a better idea?
29
30 --
31 Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs.
32 "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
33 and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Categories for GUI stuff x11 and wayland "William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt-ml@××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Categories for GUI stuff x11 and wayland Raymond Jennings <shentino@×××××.com>