On Sat, Aug 07, 2021 at 05:56:55AM +0100, Sam James wrote: > > > > 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?
How I feel as well. While it wouldn't hurt to consider revisiting the system eventually (mostly to avoid pkgmoves), I feel that's not a debate that needs to come up every time consider new categories given they're still cheap to add and a system change wouldn't happen overnight. So I'd say just go for it. -- ionen
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