On Sat, Aug 07, 2021 at 01:17:00AM -0400, Ionen Wolkens wrote: > On Sat, Aug 07, 2021 at 05:56:55AM +0100, Sam James wrote: > > > > > > > On 6 Aug 2021, at 23:27, Louis Sautier <sb...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > > > > On 06/08/2021 02:57, Alec Warner wrote: > > >> 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.. > > > > > > I also care about categories: if I want to find a Python MySQL library, > > > I'll run "eix -C dev-python mysql" (3 results) instead of a plain "eix > > > mysql" (33 results). And, as William said, they really help with > > > ambiguous package names such as docker. > > > > This is definitely my approach too. > > > > Anyway, I'm supportive of the new category. If it makes things clearer for > > people, why not? > > While it wouldn't hurt to consider revisiting the system eventually > (mostly to avoid pkgmoves), I feel that's not a debate that needs to > come up every time consider new categories given they're still cheap > to add and a system change wouldn't happen overnight.
Categories are just one piece of metadata about the package and incorporating - one somewhat arbitrary - metadata in a name is in general not a good idea. I think that was all Alec was saying and I tend to agree. But it is not an easy fix so go ahead afaic. -- Eray
