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
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