>>>>> On Sat, 4 Apr 2015, Philip Webb wrote: > 150404 Alex Brandt wrote: >> On Saturday, April 04, 2015 14:41:37 Philip Webb wrote: >>> I read the recent thread re the new app-eselect. >>> Doing my weekly system update, >>> it strikes me that 'eselect' itself sb there too. >>> Time to paint the bikesheds again ... (smile) >> I don't disagree but will simply point out that if this becomes >> true, we should also move dev-lang/python to dev-python, >> dev-lang/ruby to dev-ruby & dev-lang/perl to dev-perl (not >> exhaustive).
> No (and to the other objectors' lists): > there are many computer languages, but there is only 1 'eselect'. > The eselect set-up is unique within Gentoo, > which makes it natural to put it all under 1 category. eselect is an administration tool, therefore it goes into the app-admin category, together with other administration tools. That the main application goes into a generic category is a pattern that we have used for many years. Other examples, apart from programming languages, include app-editors/emacs vs app-emacs/*, app-editors/vim vs app-vim/*, and app-text/texlive vs dev-texlive/*. That said, this discussion is rather pointless now. The package move was done in the way it was announced [1], and I'm not going to touch all packages another time to update their dependency on eselect. Ulrich [1] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/fff06b1f1b36e96d5e3ba134b2101de5
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