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From: Georgi Georgiev <chutz@gg3.net>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Media-music category
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 22:24:29 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030602132429.GA12256%chutz@gg3.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DCDBD8F4-94F9-11D7-A4C6-0003934489D0@gentoo.org>

On 02/06/2003 at 21:58:10(+0900), Jon Ellis used 1.4Kbytes just to say:
> Someone coming to gentoo to do music is going to notice media-music, as
> easily as they will find media-sound, but, they are much more likely to
> find what they are looking for in category containing 50 ebuilds than
> 150!

Actually I have the feeling that the number of categories in portage is
becoming a problem as well. It is sometimes hard to find the one you need. A
tree-like structure would have been nice, but I guess it is too late for that
and I don't know what the reasoning behind the single-level "some-thing"
categorization is.

BTW, if the duplicate-names package problem is resolved once and for all, it
wouldn't be too bad an idea to let a package exist in different categories at
the same time. A symlink could do the trick, and it would also make sure that
more people find the package they need. It would also make for categorizing
those hard to categorize packages.

Am I getting too much off-topic?

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-06-02 13:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-02 10:19 [gentoo-dev] Media-music category Jon Ellis
2003-06-02 10:58 ` Georgi Georgiev
2003-06-02 12:28   ` rob holland
2003-06-02 11:46 ` Ian Phillips
2003-06-02 12:55   ` rob holland
2003-06-02 12:17     ` Georgi Georgiev
2003-06-02 12:37       ` Troy Dack
2003-06-02 12:58         ` Jon Ellis
2003-06-02 13:24           ` Georgi Georgiev [this message]
2003-06-02 15:11             ` rob holland
2003-06-02 15:36               ` Todd Berman
2003-06-02 16:28                 ` rob holland
2003-06-02 15:43                   ` Todd Berman
2003-06-02 16:01             ` [gentoo-dev] namespace and categories ( was: Media-music category) Rolf Veen
2003-06-02 16:05               ` Todd Berman
2003-06-02 16:27                 ` Georgi Georgiev
2003-06-02 16:46                 ` Rolf Veen

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