Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new category for container related packages, instead of app-emulation

[Ionen Wolkens]

On Sat, Aug 07, 2021 at 05:56:55AM +0100, Sam James wrote:
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> > On 6 Aug 2021, at 23:27, Louis Sautier <sbraz@g.o> wrote:
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> > On 06/08/2021 02:57, Alec Warner wrote:
> >> On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 2:44 PM Georgy Yakovlev <gyakovlev@g.o> wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> We've been collecting more and more container related packages in
> >>>  app-emulation/*
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> >>> What do you think about finally moving those packages to separate category?
> >> As always my opinion is that:
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> >> (a) Categories were a design mistake.
> >> (b) The mistake is hard to fix.
> >> (c) It's basically low-value to try to 'correctly' categorize packages
> >> because of A.
> >> (d) Recategorizing means a bunch of stuff has to be updated.
> >>
> >> Do people actually care what category things are in? I just use
> >> --search or eix or whatever and the category is just this...bad
> >> concept we attach to packages for silly historical reasons..
> >>
> >> -A
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I also care about categories: if I want to find a Python MySQL library, I'll run "eix -C dev-python mysql" (3 results) instead of a plain "eix mysql" (33 results). And, as William said, they really help with ambiguous package names such as docker.
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> This is definitely my approach too.
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> Anyway, I'm supportive of the new category. If it makes things clearer for people, why not?

How I feel as well.

While it wouldn't hurt to consider revisiting the system eventually
(mostly to avoid pkgmoves), I feel that's not a debate that needs to
come up every time consider new categories given they're still cheap
to add and a system change wouldn't happen overnight.

So I'd say just go for it.

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ionen