From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18638 invoked by uid 1002); 2 Jun 2003 12:58:13 -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 32386 invoked from network); 2 Jun 2003 12:58:12 -0000 Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 21:58:10 +0900 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v552) Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org To: Troy Dack From: Jon Ellis In-Reply-To: <1054557468.16242.5.camel@carbon.internal.lan> Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Media-music category X-Archives-Salt: 1b87de36-7020-472b-b5f7-06f540a2c2e2 X-Archives-Hash: 76babe43d29f62ff9bb5ad9ee2539bdb On Monday, June 2, 2003, at 09:37 PM, Troy Dack wrote: > > I'll throw my two bob in ... > > What about: > media-players > or > sound-compose (sound creation apps) > sound-players (players, duh) > sound-libs (sound related bits 'n' bobs .. alsa?) > sound-tools (mixers etc..) > > The only drawback with specific sound-* categories is that a good > portion of players (in particular) play more than just sound (ie: video > as well). Right, this is where we end up, with a bunch of categories that still aren't quite perfect. Oddly enough(!), we went through this process, trying to come up with a bunch of sound-* or audio-* categories. The end result was never quite as clean as grouping things together in something like media-music. In my mind, the good thing about the media-music approach is that it doesn't have to be the end of the process. If more sub-division is needed of media-sound (or media-music) it can be done. Perhaps some of the things in our list (for instance, JACK) don't belong in media-music and we'll end up making new categories for them in the future (media-routing?) However, right now media-sound is all over the place, the trees hide the forest, etc. Someone coming to gentoo to do music is going to notice media-music, as easily as they will find media-sound, but, they are much more likely to find what they are looking for in category containing 50 ebuilds than 150! j. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list