From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LUSy0-0008Lo-4y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:38:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2FECEE06E7; Tue, 3 Feb 2009 21:37:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DF76E06E7 for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2009 21:37:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7824644F9 for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2009 21:37:58 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.964 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.964 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.635, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id UJzxlA-Zt-8q for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2009 21:37:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62C1A6444C for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2009 21:37:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LUSxj-0003yR-FX for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:37:43 +0000 Received: from ip68-230-99-190.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.230.99.190]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:37:43 +0000 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-230-99-190.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:37:43 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Announcement of The G Palmtop Environment ebuilds Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 21:37:31 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <1233675279.6250.95.camel@localhost> <20090203192431.GA3819@comet> <20090203194715.GB3819@comet> <1233691996.22368.25.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-230-99-190.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.133 (House of Butterflies) Sender: news Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 8eba689e-8483-47cc-8454-6412ebd846c7 X-Archives-Hash: 568cc3f2c008039323db8df5c1330d07 Angelo Arrifano posted 1233691996.22368.25.camel@localhost, excerpted below, on Tue, 03 Feb 200= 9 20:13:15 +0000: > On Ter, 2009-02-03 at 11:47 -0800, Donnie Berkholz wrote: >> On 11:24 Tue 03 Feb , Donnie Berkholz wrote: >> >=20 >> > Could you expand on how each new category is useful? >=20 > In my maintainer point of view, it just make sense to follow upstream > categorization of packages. >=20 > In the user centric view, it will be a lot more easier to know what > package is for by looking at each category. gpe-xxxx is intended for > embedded devices, one might want to keep it clean and minimal. >=20 >> > What are the stats on package count per category? >>=20 >> I got this from solar: >>=20 >> 30 gpe-base >> 8 gpe-games >> 4 gpe-media >> 9 gpe-misc >> 2 gpe-net >> 32 gpe-phone >> 6 gpe-pim >> 18 gpe-utils >> 8 gpe-xsession >>=20 >> Unless those tiny ones are going to be growing a lot, I'm not terribly >> convinced of this many new ones. >>=20 > They won't grow much over time so I understand your point. {But...] What about handling it much as split-KDE is handled? IOW, just one gpe- base (or if upstream specifically has the dash already, maybe gpalmtop- environment) category, with gpecat-pkgname or gpe-cat-pkgname packages,=20 so you'd have gpe-base/gpebase-pkgfoo, gpe-base/gpegames-pkgbar, etc? That would closely parallel the kde-base/kdebase-cursors, kde-base/kdenetwork-kfile-plugins scheme, with options such as kde-base/konqueror (no upstream category name included) if desired. --=20 Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman