[gentoo-dev] Breaking up the beast known as app-games

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

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well like i promised we've surpassed the # of pkgs in dev-perl ... that was 
cool but now we need to refocus ...

with app-games sitting at ~330, app-emulation sitting at ~90, and dev-games at 
~20, we need to re-organize.  3 categories for ~440 packages is not enough 
imo and many other people agree (browse the forums and see Bug 20328 if you 
dont believe me).

the question is how many categories should we have ?  well i setup a small 
site to help with this and get community feedback as to what would be a good 
start for new categories.  the results are here: 
http://games.wh0rd.de/newcats.html
for those too lazy to browse to the site, the proposal is this:
    * app-emulation [28]   (basically leave the non-game related pkgs here)
    * dev-games [17]
    * games-action [40]
    * games-arcade [38]
    * games-board [37]
    * games-emulation [59]
    * games-engines [7]
    * games-fps [48]
    * games-kids [8]
    * games-misc [29]
    * games-mud [12]
    * games-puzzle [32]
    * games-roguelike [12]
    * games-rpg [11]
    * games-server [18]
    * games-simulation [10]
    * games-sports [7]
    * games-strategy [18]
    * games-util [7]

yeah that's a lot of categories, but we got a lot of games ...
-mike

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