From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17682 invoked from network); 25 Jul 2004 15:53:09 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 25 Jul 2004 15:53:09 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BolJF-0000fx-3a for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 25 Jul 2004 15:53:09 +0000 Received: (qmail 23326 invoked by uid 89); 25 Jul 2004 15:53:08 +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 18601 invoked from network); 25 Jul 2004 15:53:07 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v618) In-Reply-To: <7760.205.241.48.33.1090715661.squirrel@spidermail.richmond.edu> References: <0FD0031C-DD92-11D8-B5A6-000D93283962@gentoo.org> <4102CC74.1020709@gentoo.org> <7760.205.241.48.33.1090715661.squirrel@spidermail.richmond.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Alastair Tse Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 11:53:00 -0400 To: Gentoo Dev X-Pgp-Agent: GPGMail 1.0.1 (v33, 10.3) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.618) Sender: acnt2@hermes.cam.ac.uk X-Cam-ScannerInfo: http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/email/scanner/ X-Cam-AntiVirus: No virus found X-Cam-SpamDetails: scanned, SpamAssassin (score=2.646, RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK 2.55, RCVD_IN_SORBS 0.10) X-Cam-SpamScore: ss Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] macos mess X-Archives-Salt: 1a9a0c72-dd00-4f36-9e9f-7d82578be505 X-Archives-Hash: a6d08693f4515d51dd77f8b9497fe9db -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 24 Jul 2004, at 20:34, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > 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. I would say that there will always be apps that don't fit into the packaging system. Pieter raised one example where it is a window manager (in some sense) but not X11, so it wouldn't fit in x11-wm or any x11-* categories. I'm sure there will be others, and I'm not particularly keen that we should put them in app-misc just because that's the catchall. I think a app-macos is a good compromise in this scenario. But there are definitely many other macosx open source apps that would fit under the Gentoo Portage structure, like colloquy would fit in net-irc, adium would fit in net-im, class-dump would fit in dev-util, etc. > >> - 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. Do we have a sys-drivers or something equivalent? I would argue that this is needed because the sheer amount of drivers available. We don't want to start polluting sys-kernels with darwin drivers, do we? HOWEVER, I agree that it is premature to setup a category where there are no plans to even merge these drivers into portage for the next month or so. Cheers, - -- Alastair 'liquidx' Tse >> Gentoo Developer (Python/GNOME/CJK/PDA/Bluetooth) >> http://www.liquidx.net/ | http://dev.gentoo.org/~liquidx/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) iD8DBQFBA9dhOM4cezkHFPYRApcfAKCeLqt0qq53eY3H3Ad7t2JM+HA7GACfV245 180AEUSUivRVO6+DuKUr9AU= =gNqg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list