Hi.
Today I wanted to add myspell dictionaries to oi-userland.
As OI dictionaries are based on dictionaries from OpenOffice.org,
disappeared long ago, I wanted to base them on Debian dictionaries
(which are created from well-known sources). But dictionaries are 13
packages (library/myspell/dictionary/*). I looked at oi-userland
components/ directory and it is a mess, I don't know where I can put 13
more related packages. In userland style I'd create myspell directory,
creating individual components. But it's sill a mess.
Let's look, currently we have the following "categories" - i.e.
directories under components, containing another components:
apache2-modules - Apache 2.2 and 2.4 modules
aspell - Aspell and its dictionaries
autoconf - Different autoconf versions
automake - Different automake versions
common-lisp - common lisp libraries
docbook - docbook stylesheets/dtds
e - Enlightenment
encumbered - components which shouldn't appear in main
repository due to patent issues
fonts - Different fonts
foomatic - Foomatic DB, DB engine, filters
illumos - Components, specific to OI/illumos
inputmethod - Input Method -related things
libusb - libusb
meta-packages - Meta packages, which doesn't deliver actual
files
openoffice - OpenOffice and OpenOffice dmake
openssl - Different OpenSSL versions
osol - packages, which we republish from
opensolaris.org repository with some changes
perl - Different Perl versions
perl_modules - Perl Modules
python - Python and Python libraries
ruby - Ruby and Ruby libraries
samba - Different samba versions
scientific - Scientific components
scientific/python - Scientific python modules
sqlite - Sqlite and tcl sqlite library
tcl - tcl, tk and tcl libraries
x11 - x11 components
xscreensaver - xscreensaver and rss-glx
And about 700 uncategorized components.
This is an awful mess!!!!
I'd like to move to something more similar to pkgsrc or ports structure.
Ports categories:
accessibility
arabic
archivers
astro
audio
benchmarks
biology
cad
chinese
comms
converters
databases
deskutils
devel
dns
editors
emulators
finance
french
ftp
games
german
graphics
hebrew
hungarian
irc
japanese
java
korean
lang
mail
math
misc
multimedia
net
net-im
net-mgmt
net-p2p
news
packages
palm
polish
ports-mgmt
portuguese
print
russian
science
security
shells
sysutils
textproc
ukrainian
vietnamese
www
x11
x11-clocks
x11-drivers
x11-fm
x11-fonts
x11-servers
x11-themes
x11-toolkits
x11-wm
Pkg-src categories:
archivers
audio
benchmarks
biology
bootstrap
cad
chat
comms
converters
cross
databases
devel
editors
emulators
filesystems
finance
fonts
games
geography
graphics
ham
inputmethod
lang
mail
math
mbone
meta-pkgs
misc
multimedia
net
news
packages
parallel
pkglocate
pkgtools
print
regress
security
shells
sysutils
textproc
time
wm
www
x11
The issue is that moving component from top level components directory
to subdirectory will trigger build in Jenkins, which requires some (and
sometimes considerable) time, can require fixing some components, and so
is better to be avoided as one-time task.
I suggest:
1) agree on several (~20 ) categories (something like in pkg-src);
2) move individual components to corresponding categories as they are
touched;
3) avoid creating new top-level components;
4) allow creating sub-categories.
As for top-level categories, I'd like to see something like
archivers
closed # closed source components
databases
devel # development tools and libraries
desktop-environments # gnome, enlightenment\
deskutils
encumbered
fonts
games
graphics
lang # languages and language modules
inputmethod
meta-packages
multimedia
openindiana # illumos and OI-specific software
scientific
shells
sysutils
textproc
www
x11
What do you think?
--
Best regards,
Alexander Pyhalov,
system administrator of Southern Federal University IT department
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