Hello
The plan is to introduce MATE to the Portage tree next week; in order
to accomplish that, two new categories for MATE specific packages need
to be made. These categories would be named mate-base and mate-extra:
mate-base: contains MATE specific packages that are either part of
the main MATE DE or MATE specific libraries, and the meta package;
mate-extra: contains extra MATE software by The MATE Team that is
specific to the MATE desktop, or integrates with it; things that
can work outside of the MATE DE (eg. GTK+ themes) are NOT part of
this, as they fit in more specific categories (eg. x11-themes).
Currently, the MATE overlay has 14 meta-base packages and 16 mate-extra
packages; this might slightly change when reconsidering if their
location is alright, however it is near the average (~15) per category
so that should be fit.
When discussing this in the #gentoo-desktop; it was brought up by leio
that there are various other categories with *-base suffix, and some
categories do the *-extra suffix (gnome, rox and xfce). There are also
other categories that use a different suffix (kde-misc, gnustep-*).
Infirit (the overlay maintainer) highlights that they historically were
introduced to reflect the categories that were used by the GNOME team;
it makes as this a fork, so I think we should keep it similar to that.
As it is quite common it seems that mate-base would be fine; mate-extra
is up for discussion if anyone is interested and/or wants to see this
different, as to avoid pkgmoves.
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With kind regards,
Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
Gentoo Developer
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