On 22/02/17 02:48, Gordon Pettey wrote: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 7:05 PM, M. J. Everitt <m.j.ever...@iee.org > <mailto:m.j.ever...@iee.org>> wrote: > > On 21/02/17 08:53, Lars Wendler wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Feb 2017 22:47:17 +0100 Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > > > >> Hey all, > >> > >> 1) Putting printer drivers into "net-print" is silly. > >> > >> Something that converts format a to device-specific format b has > >> absolutely nothing to do with network. > >> So, a new category "sys-print", emphasizing that it's hardware > >> drivers, (or "cups-drv"?) (or maybe "media-print"?) might make > sense. > > Like I said in IRC, I'm all in favor of this. "media-print" seems > > reasonable as I don't consider printing related packages being > > system-relevant (and thus no sys-print). > > > > > Maybe we can shoot for "app-print" .. its not really a system package > any more than a networking one, nor a (multi-)media package per-se > (cue > bikeshed on what 'media' means) .. so perhaps just 'app-print' or > 'app-printing' .. I dunno .. > > > There is no requirement for category names to be x-y. Instead of > forcing a prefix-suffix pattern that doesn't really fit, just call it > "printing". Whilst I don't think there is anything specified in PMS/devmanual .. find me another category without X-Y pattern? I'm not sure about portage internals, but there could be some exploiting of the fact this is 'normally' the case ..
I could, ofc, be mistaken ...
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