From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17071 invoked from network); 25 Jul 2004 00:34:28 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 25 Jul 2004 00:34:28 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BoWyB-0008Vc-1P for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 25 Jul 2004 00:34:27 +0000 Received: (qmail 14362 invoked by uid 89); 25 Jul 2004 00:34:26 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 19062 invoked from network); 25 Jul 2004 00:34:26 +0000 X-Authentication-Warning: rocky.richmond.edu: apache set sender to spyderous@gentoo.org using -f Message-ID: <7760.205.241.48.33.1090715661.squirrel@spidermail.richmond.edu> Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 20:34:21 -0400 (EDT) From: "Donnie Berkholz" To: In-Reply-To: References: <0FD0031C-DD92-11D8-B5A6-000D93283962@gentoo.org> <4102CC74.1020709@gentoo.org> X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.10) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MailScanner-SpamxCheck: , X-MailScanner-From: spyderous@gentoo.org X-MailScanner: Found to be clean Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] macos mess X-Archives-Salt: 7218b007-c2af-4a67-ade4-8d9c5610dddd X-Archives-Hash: 315e3bd44e4b5dbcc587a8cd58e20b22 Pieter Van den Abeele said: > The reasoning behind both: > > - app-macos contains apps that do not depend on anything but a regular > mac os x system. A good example of such an app is the GPL'ed OS X > Desktop Manager which implements virtual desktops on OS X. > http://wsmanager.sourceforge.net/index.php Most of the time these > packages are Mac OS X only, open source and don't fit any other > category. I have a tough time believing there are any applications with functions written in languages that cannot be functionally or linguistically classified. The architecture/OS on which a program runs shouldn't be a basis for a category. > - sys-darwin contains ebuilds for software that is very very darwin > (mostly kerneldriver) specific. I was thinking of things like (just a > quick cut/paste): Same point as above. > I created both empty directories a week or two ago, because I figured > if somebody didn't like them he would bring them up on the ml and have > them renamed to something even better if needed. At the time I thought > they were kosher. Nothing to have nightmares about. (I hope) > Suggestions welcome of course. I'm glad to hear it's open for discussion, but in the future, could you do the discussion before rather than after the action? We shouldn't be expected to go wandering around, looking for new directories, code or whatever. Thanks, Donnie -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list