Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: ROMs category suggestion

2012-07-26 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Kent Fredric schrieb: > firmware-video/ati-firmware > firmware-video/ati > > and any category name with "Firmware" in it, will result in lots of > redundant names exposed to users/deps if the package /also/ has > firmware in the name. Indeed, but this redundancy already exists in tree, e.g. dev-l

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: ROMs category suggestion

2012-07-26 Thread Kent Fredric
On 26 July 2012 19:32, Michał Górny wrote: > But you are aware that this is *upstream* naming? > > Similarly, ati-drivers (which is not upstream naming :P) > and nvidia-drivers don't follow the suite. I wasn't aware of that, but thats beside the point I was trying to make. Its just a mechanism th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: ROMs category suggestion

2012-07-26 Thread Michał Górny
On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 06:03:53 + (UTC) Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn posted on Wed, 25 Jul 2012 21:58:30 > +0200 as excerpted: > > > Kent Fredric schrieb: > >> On 23 July 2012 08:48, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina > >> wrote: > >>> I do see some advantage of the

[gentoo-dev] Re: ROMs category suggestion

2012-07-25 Thread Duncan
Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn posted on Wed, 25 Jul 2012 21:58:30 +0200 as excerpted: > Kent Fredric schrieb: >> On 23 July 2012 08:48, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina >> wrote: >>> I do see some advantage of the current way of putting the >>> firmware in the category of what it is for... >> >> If you w