On 13/10/12 08:35, Ivan Burbakov wrote:
Why not ${PROVIDER}-${SUBPROVIDER/PROJECT}/${PNVR}? Like
kde-multimedia, gnome-libs etc?
Then we could just stay with what we have right now. I basically proposed the
subprovider thing, because it introduces a very natural structure for quite a
few larger projects (like i.e. gnome, kde), that's all.
However, I don't like this suggestion at all. I love gentoo-style
categories (they not necessary have to be implemented exactly same
way as in gentoo, of course) e.g. role-based categorization, not
provider-based.
And I really dislike them, because they are both unprecise and limited. Quite
often, it is unclear where to put a package and sometimes, a package can be put
into different "categories", depending mainly on the mood of the committer.
Right now, we have for example two categories for web browsers, one being
net-www, the other one www-client. And at some point, someone might want to put
them into web-browsers.
In the end, the gentoo-style categories are very close to being useless to
categorize stuff, tags (or whatever you want to call them, I prefer keywords)
are much better suited to do that. Although far from being perfect, I think that
the provider is a more precise way to structure the exheres tree.
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