-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Nathan L. Adams wrote: > Well obviously there needs to be a consensus on *how* to logically > organize things before anyone goes willy nilly changing stuff. Do you > group by what the package is used for (email vs. game vs. web browser) > or by what it is built from (PERL stuff, Gnome apps, KDE apps). It > appears that currently its a mix. Is that documented anywhere? > > I personally think the organization should be from an end-user > perspective as much as possible. Imagine for a moment that you are a > Genewbie (new Gentoo user). You have a new minimal installation and you > want to add some applications. How do you know what your choices are for > an email client, for instance? You could find most things here: > > http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=mail-client > > But that wouldn't let you know about kmail, a fairly important option. > > If you were to do a search, you wouldn't get much either: > > # emerge -s email > Searching... > [ Results for search key : email ] > [ Applications found : 5 ] > > * dev-perl/Email-Find > * dev-perl/Email-Valid > * net-mail/archivemail > * net-mail/email > * net-mail/sendEmail > > So while the metadata.xml files do exist, I don't see how they are > _currently_ very useful to the end-users. Again, I think better > organization and improved tools are both worth while. > > Nathan >
Oooops. I just realized that I did a --search instead of a --searchdesc. But I doubt most users even realize that --searchdesc even exists, so my argument there still applies. ;) Nathan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCo2iK2QTTR4CNEQARAjgtAJ0TysMfDTptn9U1v7NlquVpONevVQCZAbA6 TYcZJnMAAhsgcNwpKw6fiO4= =H/f5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
