On 14 September 2012 15:46, Bo Ørsted Andresen <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
I think the idea there is not to rename the ::x11 repository, but rather to create a new one such as ::gui, ::graphical, or something like that, and move non-stricly-x11 stuff from ::x11 to there _______________________________________________ Exherbo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.exherbo.org/mailman/listinfo/exherbo-dev
