Rich Freeman wrote: > > Calling it "gentoo" makes sense > > The thing is, Gentoo is more than a bunch of ebuilds.
Sure, but the gentoo ebuild repo is just a bunch of ebuilds. Gentoo as name can and should be used elsewhere too of course. > Certainly they're a HUGE part of Gentoo, but they alone aren't Gentoo. > In some sense you could have ebuilds/gentoo.git but then what happens > when you clone ebuilds/gentoo.git, website/gentoo.git, and so on? Keep them in different subdirectories, to reflect the central namespace? > Namespaces are useful to prevent accidental collisions, and for > organization, but without getting too crazy with the names I think it > is best off when the final name stands on its own reasonably well. Always optimize for the common case. What changes more often, ebuilds/ or website/ ? That repo gets to use the pretty name, the other repo gets an uglier one, maybe "website/website.git". :) //Peter
