>>>>> On Tue, 11 Mar 2025, Anna (cybertailor) Vyalkova wrote:
>> Let's call it "sci-machine-learning/". > Looks good, but would be better without the second hyphen: > "sci-machinelearning". Kind of similar to "app-mobilephone". > There is indeed no limit on the category name length or structure in > the PMS. The way they are named in Gentoo is just a tradition. There are good reasons to keep the total path length short. For example, test suites may break if the directory path under PORTAGE_TMPDIR is too long (and I learned this the hard way). The category name is a good place to start because it affects multiple packages. Ulrich
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