> On 6 Aug 2021, at 23:27, Louis Sautier <sb...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > 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.
This is definitely my approach too. Anyway, I'm supportive of the new category. If it makes things clearer for people, why not? best, sam
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