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

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

[Mike Frysinger]

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

[Philippe Lafoucrière]

Guys, this has been discussed in april 2002 already
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=19273&highlight=zope


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

[Ralph F. De Witt]

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On Friday 05 September 2003 01:22 am, Philippe Lafoucrière wrote:
> Guys, this has been discussed in april 2002 already
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=19273&highlight=zope
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What does ZOPE have to do with breaking up the Games section of portage into 
many smaller catagories that are more manageable? Are you proposeing that 
portage be rewritten and turned into a ZOPE database?
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Breaking up the beast known as app-games

[Mike Frysinger]

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On Friday 05 September 2003 04:51, Ralph F. De Witt wrote:
> On Friday 05 September 2003 01:22 am, Philippe Lafoucrière wrote:
> > Guys, this has been discussed in april 2002 already
> > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=19273&highlight=zope
> What does ZOPE have to do with breaking up the Games section of portage
> into many smaller catagories that are more manageable? Are you proposeing
> that portage be rewritten and turned into a ZOPE database?

what he meant was the fact that portage should go into depths like bsd ports 
was discussed before ...
the zope example is like this:
net-www/zope/server/server.ebuild
-mike

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

[Mike Frysinger]

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since no one seemed to have any additional input about the new structure, i'm 
going to be breaking up the tree mid-tomorrow (tuesday)

any last issues, say it now
-mike

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