From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E8E6F158086 for ; Sun, 19 Dec 2021 10:30:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 89D422BC041; Sun, 19 Dec 2021 10:30:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (dev.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6847D2BC003 for ; Sun, 19 Dec 2021 10:30:36 +0000 (UTC) From: Ulrich Mueller To: Joshua Kinard Cc: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Printer drivers and net-print In-Reply-To: <5debb049-dfed-e5ae-f8b1-539fa303f326@gentoo.org> (Joshua Kinard's message of "Fri, 17 Dec 2021 19:37:31 -0500") References: <2225532.dXl5vgaOU9@pinacolada> <25230153.1r3eYUQgxm@tuxbrain> <20211217195625.a14b68e403db09b744001334@gentoo.org> <5debb049-dfed-e5ae-f8b1-539fa303f326@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2021 11:30:25 +0100 Message-ID: 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 X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Archives-Salt: 6a2ff80e-ee3a-4124-a651-0ca7dab3a56f X-Archives-Hash: 9f3aadbef466cc726f5eee41d5bf7f6c >>>>> On Sat, 18 Dec 2021, Joshua Kinard wrote: > Maybe consider three new top-level categories?: > - print-drivers > - print-filters > - print-misc net-print is already a small category with only 35 packages, so IMHO splitting it up into three tiny categories wouldn't make much sense. Also, splitting cups components between different categories looks a little artificial. > [...] > Idea behind a new top-level print-* group of categories is that printing is > a fairly large ecosystem, and lumping it all into something like media-print > or sys-print seems to miss the mark a bit. media-* seems more aligned to > things like sound, video, and graphics (the digital kind), and less about > print media. sys-print implies the system-level connections that a printer > has, and would be a good fit for all of the printer driver packages, but not > as good a fit for things like net-print/poster. Can we please keep things simple and just do a full category move [1] from net-print to (e.g.) media-print? Ulrich [1] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/2479de62249646b84932ab2801914ccc