sys-apps is huge, and that makes it a nuisance to work with. I'd like to get as much non-core-system stuff out of sys-apps and moved into other categories if possible.
>From looking at the apps that're there, the following rough categories sort of maybe stand out a bit: sys-apps: keep this around, but for core stuff only sys-misc: sys-utils? sys-tools? non-core tools that're still systemy sys-process: process and cron utilities sys-power: power management related apps sys-cpu: cpu management related apps sys-storage: or move stuff to sys-fs? sys-network: or move stuff to net-*? sys-hardware: other hardware related apps (maybe splittable further?) sys-bsd: see note below I made a really rough list of possible members, which is here: http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm/tmp/sys-apps.txt It's not a very good list, and the categories proposed aren't very good either, but it's a rough starting point. Feedback strongly encouraged, since the current list isn't anywhere near implementation-level sanity. Regarding sys-bsd... When the *bsd folks get their thing working, we're going to end up with a fair number of bsdish things in the tree. Since sys-apps is too frickin' huge, would sys-bsd make sense? This email brought to you by the campaign for splitting up base-system into a number of smaller saner parts. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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