On 8/5/21 5:57 PM, Alec Warner wrote: > On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 2:44 PM Georgy Yakovlev <gyakov...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> We've been collecting more and more container related packages in >> app-emulation/* >> >> What do you think about finally moving those packages to separate category? > As always my opinion is that: > > (a) Categories were a design mistake. > (b) The mistake is hard to fix. > (c) It's basically low-value to try to 'correctly' categorize packages > because of A. > (d) Recategorizing means a bunch of stuff has to be updated. > > Do people actually care what category things are in? I just use > --search or eix or whatever and the category is just this...bad > concept we attach to packages for silly historical reasons..
We particularly like categories, and especially the (mostly) two-level concept in gentoo. `emerge --search` works for some things, but often returns extra junk to filter through, when we know a project name, it's easier to just `ls /usr/portage/dev-ruby/` and see if there's a `grpc` package in it (upstream gem seems to force `-j12` for native compilation, wondered if gentoo packagers had fixed that problem). Also, the graphical portage interface we use (and barely maintain) has a two-level category picker which even lets you select just the top-level category and see what's under several of it's subcategories: kuroo two-level category picker -A > > -A > >> probably app-containers/ >> >> Here's the tentative list, most tools have description attached for easier >> review, 36 candidates so far, there may be more around, I only looked at >> app-emulation. >> >> app-emulation/buildah - A tool that facilitates building OCI images >> app-emulation/cadvisor - container analyzer >> app-emulation/conmon - An OCI container runtime monitor >> app-emulation/containerd - A daemon to control runC >> app-emulation/containers-storage - containers/storage library >> app-emulation/cri-o - OCI-based implementation of Kubernetes CRI >> app-emulation/cri-tools - CLI and validation tools for CRI >> app-emulation/crun - OCI Container Runtime fully written in C >> app-emulation/distrobuilder - System container image builder for LXC and LXD >> app-emulation/docker - Main offender >> app-emulation/docker-bench-security - Test for best docker practices >> app-emulation/docker-cli - Main offender cli >> app-emulation/docker-compose - Multi-container orchestration for Docker >> app-emulation/docker-credential-helpers - >> app-emulation/docker-gc - Docker garbage collection of containers and images >> app-emulation/docker-proxy - Docker container networking >> app-emulation/docker-registry - >> app-emulation/docker-swarm - >> app-emulation/flannel - An etcd backed network fabric for containers >> app-emulation/go-secbench - run and evaluate the docker security benchmark >> app-emulation/img - Standalone Dockerfile and OCI container image builder >> app-emulation/k3d - creates k3s clusters in docker >> app-emulation/kompose - Tool to move from docker-compose to Kubernetes >> app-emulation/lxc - A userspace interface for the Linux kernel containment >> app-emulation/lxc-templates - >> app-emulation/lxd - Fast, dense and secure container management >> app-emulation/nerdctl - Docker-compatible CLI for containerd >> app-emulation/podman - Main offender killer >> app-emulation/reg - Docker registry v2 command line client >> app-emulation/runc - another docker thing >> app-emulation/s6-overlay - an s6-based init system for containers >> app-emulation/sen - Terminal User Interface for docker engine >> app-emulation/skopeo - Utility for operations on container >> images/repositories >> app-emulation/slirp4netns - User-mode networking for unpriv network >> namespaces >> app-emulation/snapd - Service and tools for management of snap packages >> app-emulation/umoci - Manipulation tool for OCI images >> >> Those 4 are technically emulation related, so I'm not sure about category: >> app-emulation/docker-machine >> app-emulation/docker-machine-kvm >> app-emulation/hyperd >> app-emulation/runv
