On Thu, 16 Jun 2016 00:01:52 +0200 "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfri...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > Right now we have the following components:
> >
> > - Applications,
> merge with unspecified
Merging is impossible.
> > - Core system,
> autoassign to base-system?
Will base-system handle systemd bugs? I doubt it. It reminds me of
auto-assignment to games which resulted in many bugs hitting /dev/null.
> > - Development,
> makes no sense, merge with unspecified
>
> > - Eclasses and Profiles,
> split into eclasses and profiles
Splitting is impossible. I can create two new components, if you
insist, and disable the old one.
> > - Games,
> merge with applications
>
> > - Java,
> auto-assign to java
Why is Java special? Just because nobody uses it?
> > - Library,
> merge with unspecified
>
> > - Printing,
> either autoassign to printing or merge with unspecified
>
> > - Server,
> does anyone actually use this?
Yes. Reasons unclear.
> > - All packages,
> > - Core system [includes baselayout],
> > - Eclasses and Profiles,
> > - GCC Porting,
> > - Hardened,
> > - Keywording & Stabilization,
> > - New packages ('New ebuilds' previously),
> > - SELinux.
> >
>
> This is pretty close to the result of above reassignment, however,...
>
> > Keeping the big pseudo-category split doesn't make much sense as most
> > of the packages can't be fit easily into a specific group and it only
> > confuses users. GNOME & KDE aren't very clear either, especially for
> > non-core packages (like: is systemd a GNOME package?). Having them
> > skip bug-wranglers doesn't sound really helpful.
>
> Keeping the big desktop environments would be nice; anything that is a large,
> logical group of packages maintained by one team.
>
> Like, auto-assigning kde to kde and gnome to gnome.
>
> Of course upstream doesn't really help with their destructive tendencies.
> ("There is no KDE5, only Frameworks, Plasma and Applications.")
But there are non-core KDE apps that are not maintained by KDE team,
and GNOME apps that are not maintained by GNOME team. Users usually
don't check maintainers before choosing a component...
--
Best regards,
Michał Górny
<http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>
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