On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 12:06:39AM -0700, Dan Price wrote: > I tried building out an example of what I might like to see, and came > to an idea the there were some broad categories of software that people > might like to access, depending on the role of the machine, which I > see falling into roughly one of three categories: > > - Server > - Consumer style desktop (anything from home user to call > center to CAD engineer) > - Developer style desktop
These would be great high-level incorporations or clusters, but those don't need to map to bits of package name. > developer > developer/compiler/gcc4 > developer/ide/netbeans > developer/lang/python > developer/lang/java I'm okay wth most of your proposal here (though I don't have strong preferences one way or another), but it seems odd to put python and java under developer. They're really platform-level components (though Java does have separate developer-specific bits). Perhaps under system? > utility/text/vim What makes emacs a desktop editor and vim a text-processing utility? Danek _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
