From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OZKYV-0008UZ-IO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:16:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 632E5E0BCE; Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:16:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1065DE0B3C for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:16:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from test (mpt-emc12.eit.hs-mittweida.de [141.55.66.52]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1B8BA1B40B2 for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:16:24 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:16:05 +0200 From: Thomas Beierlein To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: amateur radio applications should not be in media-radio Message-ID: <20100715111605.39b2984b@test> In-Reply-To: <20100714191654.GA9101@linux1> References: <20100714172747.GA8883@linux1> <20100714204825.5be468c0@ham> <20100714191654.GA9101@linux1> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.5 (GTK+ 2.18.9; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/50fu+8XMnTOg/hWnOIaUH7s"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: d38d5fb4-58ea-4282-b29d-228cc23bda5f X-Archives-Hash: 399003203f83ea88f51c3532c6e9868a --Sig_/50fu+8XMnTOg/hWnOIaUH7s Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:16:54 -0500 William Hubbs wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 08:48:25PM +0200, Thomas Beierlein wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:27:47 -0500 > > William Hubbs wrote: > >=20 > > > All, > > >=20 > > > I have recently noticed that our amateur radio applications are > > > in the category media-radio. > > >=20 > > > 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. > > >=20 > > 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. >=20 > I am an amateur radio operator as well, and that is why putting the > ham radio apps in"media-radio" bothers me. Ham radio is not part of > the media.=20 > > 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. > >=20 > > 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. >=20 > I would say that if the sunrise packages eventually get moved into > portage, they should go in app-hamradio instead of media-radio, then > maybe we could move the other ham radio packages over there, but then > what would be the best choice for whatever is left in media-radio? >=20 I wonder if there is a formal approach to add new categories to the tree or rename existing ones? Thomas --Sig_/50fu+8XMnTOg/hWnOIaUH7s Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkw+0eIACgkQQe4uqXYgU9VknACfZ1dVH2x0+V9FkPD4yEP1gHA8 dKYAoKr6LwlDk/xhM7Xwi04kI8QBWrFO =g1c6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/50fu+8XMnTOg/hWnOIaUH7s--