2011/6/21 Michał Górny <[email protected]>: > Hello, > > As we discussed for a while, the media-sound/ category has grown very > large and it may be a good idea to split it. > > Right now, it contains audio players, editing software, converters, > sound systems and a lot of other utilities related to sound. Splitting > that up would make looking up software easier for users (e.g. if I want > to take a look at what audio players we have, I don't need to see all > other programs). > > What do you think? What new category/-ies do you suggest?
I'd been always against the current classification. It's a bit confusing to me (it's just my -very subjective- view, of course). I'd gladly remove the "media-" thing as a whole, and do something like: gfx-viewers gfx-editors gfx-plugins gfx-libs sound-players (and maybe sound-radio) sound-editors sound-plugins sound-libs video-players (and, maybe, only maybe video-tv) video-editors video-plugins video-libs Then move fonts elsewhere or just leave them as they are. This is just a big picture though. I don't know if the degree of granularity that you get with (i.e.) sdl can be achieved with other libs, so some libs might fit into all of gfx-libs, sound-libs and video-libs. Just my random thought, as a mere long-time gentoo user. -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
