[oi-dev] oi-userland categories

[Adam Števko]

Sound reasonable. This would also make oi-userland more like freebsd ports/pkgsrc.

+1 from me.

Adam

> On Feb 18, 2016, at 3:43 PM, Aurélien Larcher <aurelien.larcher at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I suggest:
> 1) agree on several (~20 ) categories (something like in pkg-src);
> 2) move individual components to corresponding categories as they are touched;
> 3) avoid creating new top-level components;
> 4) allow creating sub-categories.
> 
> As for top-level categories, I'd like to see something like
> 
> archivers
> closed      # closed source components
> databases
> devel      # development tools and libraries
> desktop-environments # gnome, enlightenment\
> deskutils
> encumbered
> fonts
> games
> graphics
> lang       # languages and language modules
> inputmethod
> meta-packages
> multimedia
> openindiana # illumos and OI-specific software
> scientific
> shells
> sysutils
> textproc
> www
> x11
> 
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Agreed.
> For some categories the FMRI gives already a prefix that could be used as directory name e.g. 'devel' -> 'developer', 'archivers' -> 'archiver' (without appended 's'), 'textproc' -> 'text', we also have 'network' and some other categories.
> Even if is not 1:1 maybe we should avoid creating new labels when existing can be used, regardless of how much we like them, and ensure some kind of consistency.
> 
> Do you want subcategories in x11 as well to follow upstream ?
> The 'fonts' directory will exist in x11 as well since ttf fonts are delivered, should it be moved therein ?
> 
> 
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