On 06/08/2021 02:57, Alec Warner wrote:
On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 2:44 PM Georgy Yakovlev <gyakov...@gentoo.org> wrote:Hi,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
Hi,I also care about categories: if I want to find a Python MySQL library, I'll run "eix -C dev-python mysql" (3 results) instead of a plain "eix mysql" (33 results). And, as William said, they really help with ambiguous package names such as docker.
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