Steve Dibb posted on Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:55:08 -0600 as excerpted: > On 06/21/2011 08:40 AM, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: >> 2011/6/21 Michał Górny<mgo...@gentoo.org>:
>>> media-sound/ category has grown very large and [could be split]. >>> [I]t contains audio players, editing software, converters, >>> sound systems and a lot of other utilities >>> What new category/-ies do you suggest? >> I'd gladly remove the "media-" thing as a whole, and do something like: >> >> gfx-viewers gfx-editors gfx-plugins gfx-libs sound-players sound-radio? >> sound-editors sound-plugins sound-libs video-players video-tv? >> video-editors video-plugins video-libs > > I think 'audio' works better than 'sound' for category prefix of > audio/sound related apps. ++ to audio-xxxx IMO gfx-xxxx looks like some texting/personal shortcut, not appropriately professional for a (meta-)distro like gentoo. graphics-xxxx would be quite reasonable, however. > Also, leave video-* in media-video/ and media-libs/ They can fit fine > in there. Plus video-players are multimedia players (they don't play > back just video, for instance). Right. mplayer, xine, etc, work just fine as for instance mp3 players. So media-xxxx is fine for them. Plus that means we don't have to either leave media-fonts orphaned or find something else appropriate for it. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
