On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 12:03:36 -0500 > James Cloos <cl...@jhcloos.com> wrote: >> Every current category matches /^[a-z]+-[a-z]+$/. With the possible >> exception of adding moving from [a-z]+ to [a-z0-9]+, that shoud >> remain. > > Untrue. 'virtual' doesn't. If you want the rules for what constitutes a > valid category name, consult PMS. If you want to know what categories > are actually present, consult 'profiles/categories' or your package > mangler.
Tend to agree. We should use whatever makes the most sense. I'm not sure how many packages we're actually talking about though - might make sense to introduce a new category when we need it. There are a lot of assumptions people make which aren't backed by PMS. Probably the more common one is the concept that EAPIs are numerical and/or orderable. The whole concept of the "best/newest" EAPI depends on that assumption. Rich
