Re: [gentoo-dev] Printer drivers and net-print

["M. J. Everitt" <m.j.everitt@iee.org>]

[-- Attachment #1.1.1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1584 bytes --]

On 22/02/17 02:48, Gordon Pettey wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 7:05 PM, M. J. Everitt <m.j.everitt@iee.org
> <mailto:m.j.everitt@iee.org>> wrote:
>
>     On 21/02/17 08:53, Lars Wendler wrote:
>     > On Mon, 20 Feb 2017 22:47:17 +0100 Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
>     >
>     >> Hey all,
>     >>
>     >> 1) Putting printer drivers into "net-print" is silly.
>     >>
>     >> Something that converts format a to device-specific format b has
>     >> absolutely nothing to do with network.
>     >> So, a new category "sys-print", emphasizing that it's hardware
>     >> drivers, (or "cups-drv"?) (or maybe "media-print"?) might make
>     sense.
>     > Like I said in IRC, I'm all in favor of this. "media-print" seems
>     > reasonable as I don't consider printing related packages being
>     > system-relevant (and thus no sys-print).
>     >
>     >
>     Maybe we can shoot for "app-print" .. its not really a system package
>     any more than a networking one, nor a (multi-)media package per-se
>     (cue
>     bikeshed on what 'media' means) .. so perhaps just 'app-print' or
>     'app-printing' .. I dunno ..
>
>
> There is no requirement for category names to be x-y. Instead of
> forcing a prefix-suffix pattern that doesn't really fit, just call it
> "printing".
Whilst I don't think there is anything specified in PMS/devmanual ..
find me another category without X-Y pattern? I'm not sure about portage
internals, but there could be some exploiting of the fact this is
'normally' the case ..

I could, ofc, be mistaken ...

[-- Attachment #1.1.2: Type: text/html, Size: 2887 bytes --]

[-- Attachment #2: OpenPGP digital signature --]
[-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 836 bytes --]