On Monday 02 of February 2009 22:15:53 Luca Barbato wrote: > not sure how useful could be but could make more sense even if right now > kde-base contains everything comes from the main kde distribution.
To be more specific, kde-base contains everything (and only) that is distributed as KDE stable release (no extragear included). And it causes confusion as when packages are dropped from KDE release schedule (so they usually go back to extragear to release when they want), one needs to look to new place for them (in kde-misc or somewhere else). Actually categories are bad idea imho. I was thinking, maybe it would be possible to drop categories completely in the future (maybe keeping symlinks for compatibility and to ease migration) and to put *all* packages in one directory - that would require making all names unique of course. "Categorization" could be provided for user/search tools as tag clouds being defined in metadata.xml as vector of tag:weight values where tag would be some word from defined dictionary (word like "mail" "client" "kde" "dns" or sth) and weight - real value [0,1] defining how relevant is that tag. For compatibility's sake symlinks could be provided, in.ex. sys-devel/gcc -> all/gcc. But that's just an off-topic. -- regards MM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Nie boj sie przyszlosci! Zapytaj wrozke >> http://link.interia.pl/f2049
