-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 John Altobelli wrote: > For the past week I've been working on a branch of nixpkgs that moves > the packages into an file hierarchy modeled after the Gentoo portage > system (http://gentoo-portage.com/Browse). I have since completed the > reorganization and would like to get the opinions of the developers
First, I want to thank you for making such an effort in an attempt to improve NixPkgs collection. > This system would use a single directory organizational structure with > the project directory directly under that directory (ie > media-sound/audacious). The existing packages have been moved to > where they would exist in the portage system. I am not saying at all > that they need to remain there, as directories can be combined and/or > renamed. However, at this time it was easier for me to stick to the > portage tree for the most part in the initial reorganization. Personally, I would prefer a multilevel system. Personally, I would prefer to discuss changes in a more local way. For example, if development/libraries were split in Gentoo-borrowed categories, I would consider it an improvement (over current disordered state). Merging tools/ and applications/, on the other hand, seems to be better done based on existing system. > I feel this system is much easier to locate packages and more friendly > to new developers. Most of the changes are to nixpkgs, however there > are a few adjustments that needed to be made to nixos. I have tested > both and in fact have them as my /etc/nixos/nixos and > /etc/nixos/nixpkgs without any problems. I think that it is a time to start tagging (as in using symlinks). I think that from your patch we can automatically determine the many-to-many correspondence between Gentoo hierarchy and old NixPkgs hierarchy. Then - as the first step - it would be very useful to have "gentoo-correspondence" directory with Gentoo directory structure and symlinks to all our directories with the packages from that Gentoo package group. There are some optimistic cases: If our modern system allows one-to-one mapping of leaves to gentoo groups, those who want will navigate it via Gentoo-like symlinks. If we have some Gentoo group as an intermediate node split further - symlink that node, and we just continue to use better granularity. If we have some Gentoo group split between distant leaves - we-ell, maybe it is time to merge tools/ and applications. If we confuse a few Gentoo groups - - we should look whether it is worth splitting now (and symlinks will help to find that point). In the problematic cases, when we have two groups corresponding to two Gentoo groups but split in another way, we could discuss them case-by-case.. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJJi+8RAAoJEE6tnN0aWvw3qFkIAKDjdmOvWWV9dkx6UToDYiHV 7Lyg/okmuDrLWolR0CEr/yUfmCf112aJalRLH5MLjy2Go2r88FoQZDF8CkYpjXff xgGujRRxqwb4NREpN0nMDdkNI/7QZUpkkWfIJsCPCFQZrLWT+HSVAgMIZQ1EfYEx iQKB3r63ANyd33pISNIaEUjWubJ67aSUVaaBFx3D0usS2V4Tytc07UJiTy/tAqu6 /BolIHbknqLnVYqevjxn+tI10IXAsK91NZYX8U7wmpDT4QBMpnupZs7HzX0DvJJp RQvzm2+KlXEhPBW/uPzylHK7YK/w7Mtn1rOI8/gMFeAAVEqvkSjmNFeB6iHhA48= =P4aq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
