Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: amateur radio applications should not be in media-radio

[Thomas Beierlein <tomjbe@gentoo.org>]

On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:27:47 -0500
William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org> wrote:

> All,
> 
> I have recently noticed that our amateur radio applications are in the
> category media-radio.
> 
> Amateur Radio is not considered part of the media, so I would like to
> propose renaming this category to app-hamradio, or possibly moving the
> amateur radio applications to app-hamradio if there are things in
> media-radio which are not amateur radio related.
> 
I like the idea very much. But I am an radio amateur and therefore I am
a little bit biased :). I was always confused to find them in
media-radio. If we do the move please count on me.

But to be honest there are some amateur (ham) radio related packages in 
other categories too (e.g. app-misc/aldo - a cw morse trainer,
app-text/7plus - a packet radio text encoder, ..). So maybe a general
cleanup would be good.

A quick count in media-radio gives 12 packages for amateur radio and 2
others (the second one coming in just today). In sunrise there are 11
amateur radio related packages and 0 others. That means a move to
app-hamradio would leave media-radio nearly empty.

Regards
	Thomas.