From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.3 required=5.0 tests=DMARC_MISSING, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RDNS_NONE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from home2.telefragged.com (unknown [65.192.137.172]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E98C7AC3EC for ; Mon, 27 May 2002 17:57:02 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (gw2.ofw.fi [194.111.144.2]) by home2.telefragged.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) with SMTP id g4S03Ve01807 for ; Mon, 27 May 2002 19:03:31 -0500 Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 01:54:24 +0300 From: Dan Naumov To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-Id: <20020528015424.63d8dccf.jago@telefragged.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.6claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [gentoo-dev] Portage directory hierarchy and XMMS visualisation plugins. Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux developer list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: f01ac424-ba9e-4fb9-b79e-070488abafe2 X-Archives-Hash: d3d75b16496f6ef23048571f83b8e3b2 Hello. I wasn't able to find out who I should contact about this matter, so I subscribed to this list hoping that my concern will reach the right person. If I mistaken, please don't shoot me, but rather point me in the correct direction 8) After emerging several XMMS visualisation plugins, I've noticed that all of them are located under /portage/media-sound which IMHO, doesn't make much sense seeing as while they're related to an audio program, they're more related to video by themselves. I think it would be better if the XMMS audio-related plugins were kept separated from the visualisations, ie. audio plugins in media-audio and visualisations in media-video. These plugins are also kept separate in the FreeBSD ports system. If all XMMS plugins continue to go under media-sound, it will soon be very hard to figure out which are which when browing the portage hierarchy. There are already 14 plugins under media-sound and things start getting confusing for people like me, who prefer to browse the Portage tree "manually" looking for new software rather then using "emerge -s". Anyways, just thought I'd share my opinion. Sincerely, Dan Naumov (aka Jago on OPN) P.S: I also think that people with commit access to the portage cvs should be provided with clear guidelines on what things go where. P.P.S: Thanks for the great distro 8)