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sys-apps is huge, and that makes it a nuisance to work with. I'd like to |
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get as much non-core-system stuff out of sys-apps and moved into other |
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categories if possible. |
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>From looking at the apps that're there, the following rough categories |
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sort of maybe stand out a bit: |
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sys-apps: keep this around, but for core stuff only |
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sys-misc: sys-utils? sys-tools? non-core tools that're still systemy |
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sys-process: process and cron utilities |
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sys-power: power management related apps |
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sys-cpu: cpu management related apps |
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sys-storage: or move stuff to sys-fs? |
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sys-network: or move stuff to net-*? |
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sys-hardware: other hardware related apps (maybe splittable further?) |
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sys-bsd: see note below |
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I made a really rough list of possible members, which is here: |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm/tmp/sys-apps.txt |
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It's not a very good list, and the categories proposed aren't very good |
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either, but it's a rough starting point. Feedback strongly encouraged, |
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since the current list isn't anywhere near implementation-level sanity. |
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Regarding sys-bsd... When the *bsd folks get their thing working, we're |
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going to end up with a fair number of bsdish things in the tree. Since |
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sys-apps is too frickin' huge, would sys-bsd make sense? |
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This email brought to you by the campaign for splitting up base-system |
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into a number of smaller saner parts. |
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-- |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |