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On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 07:00:05PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> On śro, 2017-06-14 at 11:11 -0500, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> > All, |
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> > I am about to write two new ebuilds for packages for Gentoo that are for |
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> > container-related utilities. |
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> > Currently, the best place to put them would be app-emulation, or |
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> > app-misc or dev-util, probably app-emulation would be my first choice. |
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> > Is it time to start thinking about an app-containers category? |
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> > If so, is it ok for me to start an app-containers category with these |
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> > packages then we can look into moving other packages to it? |
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> You don't create a new category for two packages. Do you have more use |
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> cases for it? I think usually people provide a fair number of existing |
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> packages that are in different categories to prove the necessity |
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> of a new category. |
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I know this, that is why I brought it up actually. I'm working on these |
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ebuilds and was going to pre-empt a package move for them by opening up |
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a discussion about a category now. |
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There are multiple packages under app-emulation that are container |
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related vs emulation/vm related that could be moved and there is one at |
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least under dev-util (dev-util/docker-ls). |