On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 16:57 -0400, Nathan L. Adams wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Ned Ludd wrote: > > *poof* we now reshuffle, but then we can do auth with ldap. So lets > > move > > all the */ldap* related subjects under it sys-auth/... Then a month or > > six later comes along sys-ldap and it gets moved there. The logic will > > go full circle before long if we consistently keep shuffling packages > > around. > > > > All in all this is seriously the reason why ebuilds have a DESCRIPTION= > > and one of the reasons we have metadata.xml files. > > >
> Well obviously there needs to be a consensus on *how* to logically > organize things before anyone goes willy nilly changing stuff. Do you > group by what the package is used for (email vs. game vs. web browser) > or by what it is built from (PERL stuff, Gnome apps, KDE apps). It > appears that currently its a mix. Is that documented anywhere? You raise a good point and sadly that is the unfortunate thing here.. There is no clear consensus right now and we have yet to really have a fruitful thread on the subject. I not aware of any intelligent documentation on this subject either. > I personally think the organization should be from an end-user > perspective as much as possible. Imagine for a moment that you are a > Genewbie (new Gentoo user). You have a new minimal installation and you > want to add some applications. How do you know what your choices are for > an email client, for instance? You could find most things here: > Again, I think better > organization and improved tools are both worth while. I fully agree with you on improved tools and would rather see us go this route before we end up with >300 top level categories. -- Ned Ludd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [email protected] mailing list
