On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 00:52:06 +0000 Arne Janbu <[email protected]> wrote: > Given that packages like wayland are emerging and we now have it in > ::desktop, we need some discussion about repository naming. > We had a discussion in #exherbo about the right place for wayland and > found out, it wouldn't fit in ::x11 because it has nothing todo with > x11 itself. Mesa also is in ::x11, which doesn't make sense anymore. > > My proposal for this: > ::x11 is only for x11 itself and it's pakages > ::desktop needs to be thought about > <name here> would fit for packages like wayland, mesa, glu, etc. > > Where <name here> could be ::desktop, ::gui or something like that. > > I know that this change will affect a lot of packages and needs some > work, but if we want to have a consistent naming schema, we should > have to do this renaming and moving. That's why I ask about it here > and I'd like to see your proposals.
Repository renames are really messy so I'd much prefer to just avoid them and stick with what we have. -- Bo Andresen _______________________________________________ Exherbo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.exherbo.org/mailman/listinfo/exherbo-dev
