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-libs/lib* or sys-libs/lib*. I would deviate from upstream name only when there is a good reason to. > There's also the other thing to consider, and thats there's a lot of > hardware related stuff that is similar to firmware in a way, but also > totally devoid of a central category for it. Namely, kernel level > drivers. ( Which are not /that/ far removed from firmware, considering > that you can compile firmware into kernels and they're of similar > levels of necessity ). The only other thing I would group together with firmware is the Atheros HAL from the madwifi driver. Best regards, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
