[gentoo-dev] New package "eid-viewer", is app-misc ok?

[Sven Vermeulen]

Hi all

I'm going to add eid-viewer, which is software to view the contents of a
Belgian eID card (such as the person's picture, address details or
certificte information), to the Portage tree.

I think the most proper category is "app-misc", but considering this is
already a quite "full" category I'm open to suggestions what a better one
would be (if any).

There is a related package, called app-crypt/eid-mw, already in the tree
under the app-crypt category as it is middleware for interacting with the
card. However, unlike the middleware, the viewer doesn't seem to perform
anything cryptographic-related.

So - is app-misc ok?

Wkr,
Sven Vermeulen

Re: [gentoo-dev] New package "eid-viewer", is app-misc ok?

[Brian Dolbec]

On Sat, 8 Mar 2014 16:09:04 +
Sven Vermeulen  wrote:

> Hi all
> 
> I'm going to add eid-viewer, which is software to view the contents
> of a Belgian eID card (such as the person's picture, address details
> or certificte information), to the Portage tree.
> 
> I think the most proper category is "app-misc", but considering this
> is already a quite "full" category I'm open to suggestions what a
> better one would be (if any).
> 
> There is a related package, called app-crypt/eid-mw, already in the
> tree under the app-crypt category as it is middleware for interacting
> with the card. However, unlike the middleware, the viewer doesn't
> seem to perform anything cryptographic-related.
> 
> So - is app-misc ok?
> 
> Wkr,
>   Sven Vermeulen
> 

app-misc is not full, it only has 313 as of Feb. 26, 2014

Unlike dev-python, 1000+, dev-perl 1200+

So, sounds good to me.

-- 
Brian Dolbec