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>>>>> On Sat, 18 Dec 2021, Joshua Kinard wrote: |
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> Maybe consider three new top-level categories?: |
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> - print-drivers |
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> - print-filters |
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> - print-misc |
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net-print is already a small category with only 35 packages, so IMHO |
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splitting it up into three tiny categories wouldn't make much sense. |
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Also, splitting cups components between different categories looks a |
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little artificial. |
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> [...] |
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> Idea behind a new top-level print-* group of categories is that printing is |
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> a fairly large ecosystem, and lumping it all into something like media-print |
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> or sys-print seems to miss the mark a bit. media-* seems more aligned to |
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> things like sound, video, and graphics (the digital kind), and less about |
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> print media. sys-print implies the system-level connections that a printer |
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> has, and would be a good fit for all of the printer driver packages, but not |
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> as good a fit for things like net-print/poster. |
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Can we please keep things simple and just do a full category move [1] |
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from net-print to (e.g.) media-print? |
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Ulrich |
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[1] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/2479de62249646b84932ab2801914ccc |
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