Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: new category, app-containers

[Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>]

On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 1:00 PM, Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On śro, 2017-06-14 at 11:11 -0500, William Hubbs wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> I am about to write two new ebuilds for packages for Gentoo that are for
>> container-related utilities.
>>
>> Currently, the best place to put them would be app-emulation, or
>> app-misc or dev-util, probably app-emulation would be my first choice.
>>
>> Is it time to start thinking about an app-containers category?
>> If so, is it ok for me to start an app-containers category with these
>> packages then we can look into moving other packages to it?
>>
>
> You don't create a new category for two packages. Do you have more use
> cases for it? I think usually people provide a fair number of existing
> packages that are in different categories to prove the necessity
> of a new category.

I'm on the fence about whether we should create a new category, but
presumably other things like docker/etc would end up in there as well.

"Emulation" is a bit of a generic category right now.  We don't
distinguish between actual emulation vs virtualization or
containerization.  I'm not sure if there is value in making that
distinction, or if we did if even those three categories would be
sufficient.

-- 
Rich