William L. Thomson Jr. posted on Wed, 30 Aug 2017 14:01:08 -0400 as excerpted:
> This is more food for thought to start a discussion on new category > names. With Wayland becoming more of a reality every day. I think some > of the x11-* categories may need to change. Stuff in there may not be > bound to X and can run on Wayland or X. > > Examples x11-libs/gtk+ > x11-terms/terminology > > Not sure what better "universal" category names would be. But seems it > maybe time for a discussion on such and some new categories and package > moves. Given thus stuff can run under X or Wayland. Not sure x11 makes > sense anymore. > > I can do this on my own in my own overlay. But likely best for official > categories as this effects the tree not just others overlays etc. I do > not really have any ideas for better names. Just seems like a need. That could be a lot of package-move churn. It arguably might make sense to keep the current names "for legacy reasons". (Or not. Just speculating here.) FWIW, there was some related discussion awhile back on USE=X, proposing USE=gui instead, but I don't know what became of it. Perhaps gui-* category names if that's actually moving forward, in ordered to maintain a bit of consistency and for lack of a better idea? -- 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
