Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: sys-pam category

["Nathan L. Adams" <nadams@ieee.org>]

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foser wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 18:34 +0200, Jonas Geiregat wrote:
> 
>>I do agree with you but some package just have completely wrong place
>>within portage, such package placements migh confuse the user.
>>To give an example: mzscheme was placed in dev-lisp while portage had a
>>dev-scheme directory.
> 
> The current set-up isn't user-browseable anyway and hasn't been for a
> long time. I don't think the focus should be on correcting that in the
> tree, the user tools should be improved really.
> 

Then why is their a browsable "Categories" link on the packages site?

http://packages.gentoo.org/categories/

I don't agree with Ned. Organizing the packages logically makes things
less confusing for the end-user and developers alike and doesn't qualify
as a "cosmetic reason". It *is* valuable work, IMHO.

That's not to say that the user tools shouldn't be improved where
possible, of course. I don't think anyone would argue with that.

Nathan

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