2016-01-08 15:47 GMT+00:00 zimbatm <[email protected]>:

> The issue with naming is that everyone has their opinion.
>
> Since other smart people have already played the categorization game can I
> suggest to restrict the discussion to which *existing* structure we should
> adopt ?
> There are a lot of big repositories out there: debian, gentoo portage,
> archlinux, pkgsrc, ... One of them is bound to work, mostly. The nice
> benefit would also be of not having to talk about categorization ever
> again, unless the packaged project doesn't exist in the canonical
> repository.
>
That's quite good observation.

>
> I don't care what structure we chose as long as it's shallower than what
> we have right now. Like OP I'm tired of searching for packages and then
> entering long paths in my shell.
>
>
> On Fri, 8 Jan 2016 at 15:03 Bjørn Forsman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 8 January 2016 at 15:58, Vladimír Čunát <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Personally, I would make it much flatter and also make it (almost)
>> > exactly correspond to our *attribute* hierarchy.
>>
>> That's a good idea, I think!
>>
>> /Bjørn
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