On 01/08/2016 02:53 PM, Daniel Peebles wrote: > I think the categories/directories could make more sense than they do > today, and that all-packages.nix should be abolished
The largest problem I see for categorization is ambiguity (mentioned already). The "categories" will always overlap nontrivially, so we would better track such information in a different way than directory structure, e.g. meta.tags = [ "foo" "bar" "baz" ]; (perhaps even hierarchical tags). Currently a significant portion of our packages is in pkgs/development/libraries/ - which is a rather bad category IMO. If I didn't use tab-completion, I would've pushed this issue hard long time ago already. Personally, I would make it much flatter and also make it (almost) exactly correspond to our *attribute* hierarchy. We had some discussion around this on NixCon. IMO best time to execute this will be during release stabilization to minimize cherry-pick conflicts due to file renames, but first we need a clear consensus. Vladimir
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