From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from parrot.gentoo.org (lists.gentoo.org [156.56.111.196]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j1NJ13kZ002988 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 19:01:03 GMT Received: (qmail 22537 invoked by uid 89); 23 Feb 2005 19:01:02 +0000 Received: (qmail 22104 invoked from network); 23 Feb 2005 19:01:02 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 23 Feb 2005 19:01:02 +0000 Received: from [62.254.189.226] (helo=snowdrop) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.42) id 1D41kr-0006yT-Qk for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 19:01:02 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=snowdrop) by snowdrop with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D41kU-0005iq-U8 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 19:00:38 +0000 Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 19:00:35 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev] sys-apps is too big Message-ID: <20050223190035.618a8aab@snowdrop> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.0.1 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Signature_Wed__23_Feb_2005_19_00_35_+0000_+XVDSdbPHuAoYknm; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 X-Archives-Salt: b8653c94-8d9f-4bde-97bc-4d6a8dc39d94 X-Archives-Hash: 91e368dd2ff88dd7ff0e67dd386620f1 --Signature_Wed__23_Feb_2005_19_00_35_+0000_+XVDSdbPHuAoYknm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable sys-apps is huge, and that makes it a nuisance to work with. I'd like to get as much non-core-system stuff out of sys-apps and moved into other categories if possible. >>From looking at the apps that're there, the following rough categories sort of maybe stand out a bit: sys-apps: keep this around, but for core stuff only sys-misc: sys-utils? sys-tools? non-core tools that're still systemy sys-process: process and cron utilities sys-power: power management related apps sys-cpu: cpu management related apps sys-storage: or move stuff to sys-fs? sys-network: or move stuff to net-*? sys-hardware: other hardware related apps (maybe splittable further?) sys-bsd: see note below I made a really rough list of possible members, which is here: http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm/tmp/sys-apps.txt It's not a very good list, and the categories proposed aren't very good either, but it's a rough starting point. Feedback strongly encouraged, since the current list isn't anywhere near implementation-level sanity. Regarding sys-bsd... When the *bsd folks get their thing working, we're going to end up with a fair number of bsdish things in the tree. Since sys-apps is too frickin' huge, would sys-bsd make sense? This email brought to you by the campaign for splitting up base-system into a number of smaller saner parts. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm --Signature_Wed__23_Feb_2005_19_00_35_+0000_+XVDSdbPHuAoYknm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCHNLV96zL6DUtXhERAn95AKCTHJMZT4pOHDpj5oj17v/6tIKJsQCgr2I0 OGwOTsjMCTGxdK3Vtjj20k8= =St14 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature_Wed__23_Feb_2005_19_00_35_+0000_+XVDSdbPHuAoYknm-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list