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From: Michael Palimaka <kensington@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: New categories: mate-base and mate-extra
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 18:14:21
Message-Id: leapch$at3$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New categories: mate-base and mate-extra by Tom Wijsman
1 On 02/23/2014 05:02 AM, Tom Wijsman wrote:
2 > On Sat, 22 Feb 2014 17:33:57 +0000 (UTC)
3 > Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote:
4 >
5 >> Tom Wijsman posted on Sat, 22 Feb 2014 18:08:24 +0100 as excerpted:
6 >>
7 >>>> That seems a little on the small side? Can we just do a single
8 >>>> category for all of it, instead? People can go bikeshed on the
9 >>>> name.
10 >>>
11 >>> TL;DR: Yes, we could try that; but what would be a consistent name?
12 >>
13 >> mate-desktop ?
14 >
15 > While still inconsistent with what already exists, that indeed sounds
16 > sane towards the user, +1; does someone object 'mate-desktop'?
17 >
18 >> (The mate-base and mate-extra split seems more consistent with the
19 >> rest of the tree to me, and around a dozen packages each seems fine,
20 >> but if it's to be a single category, mate-desktop seems reasonable.
21 >> Or desktop- mate, or mate-dt...)
22 >
23 > (Or do we want a consistent 'mate-base' / 'mate-extra' approach?)
24 >
25 I personally prefer the base/extra approach for consistency and
26 segregation reasons.