On 11:24 Tue 03 Feb , Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > We currently provide an eclass and ebuilds arranged by top level > > categories following upstream categorization. Explicitly gpe.eclass and > > top level gpe-base gpe-net gpe-pim gpe-games gpe-utils gpe-media > > gpe-xsession. > > We know we have a lot of them but upstream finds useful to classify them > > like that and so do we. > > Could you expand on how each new category is useful? > > > The eclass and some ebuilds were based on bugzie #101393. We started > > playing with them as big flat gpe-base category which evolved over time > > by means of consecutive testing on ARMv5 handheld devices and needs. > > > > Since we are maintaining this over half a year now, we think that its > > time to finally starting moving step-by-step the GPE suite into the > > portage tree - starting with the eclass and toplevel categories. > > What are the stats on package count per category?
I got this from solar:
30 gpe-base
8 gpe-games
4 gpe-media
9 gpe-misc
2 gpe-net
32 gpe-phone
6 gpe-pim
18 gpe-utils
8 gpe-xsession
Unless those tiny ones are going to be growing a lot, I'm not terribly
convinced of this many new ones.
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Thanks,
Donnie
Donnie Berkholz
Developer, Gentoo Linux
Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com
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