On Thu, 2021-08-05 at 17:57 -0700, Alec Warner wrote: > On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 2:44 PM Georgy Yakovlev <gyakov...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > We've been collecting more and more container related packages in > > app-emulation/* > > > > What do you think about finally moving those packages to separate category? > > As always my opinion is that: > > (a) Categories were a design mistake. > (b) The mistake is hard to fix. > (c) It's basically low-value to try to 'correctly' categorize packages > because of A. > (d) Recategorizing means a bunch of stuff has to be updated. >
Categories themselves were not a design mistake. The design mistake is using categories to permit conflicting package names. Categories are convenient. Sure, they're not perfect but they serve their purpose to some degree and there's little harm in having them. If you want to organize packages better, nobody's stopping you. Until you've got a better and widespread replacement, I don't see why people shouldn't be using categories as they see fit. The other part is something we could aim for fixing but so far most developers seems to disagree with me, so there's no point in pursuing that. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
