> On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 2:44 PM Georgy Yakovlev <gyakov...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > We've been collecting more and more container related packages in
> > app-emulation/*
> > What do you think about finally moving those packages to separate category?
> As always my opinion is that:
> (a) Categories were a design mistake.
> (b) The mistake is hard to fix.
> (c) It's basically low-value to try to 'correctly' categorize packages
because of A.
> (d) Recategorizing means a bunch of stuff has to be updated.
> Do people actually care what category things are in? I just use
> --search or eix or whatever and the category is just this...bad
> concept we attach to packages for silly historical reasons..
-A
Gentoo portage has an awful lot of categories.
In contrast, Void Linux has all packages not subdivided into categories.
I counted for FreeBSD ports, 63 categories; pkgsrc, 48 categories (NetBSD, but
ported to other mostly (quasi-)Unix OSes).
My count could have been just slightly off.
I count 165 for Gentoo, could be slightly off.
I count 61 for Arbor, from Exherbo.
I count 125 categories for Haiku ports, which is modeled after Gentoo but not
nearly as many packages.
Tom
