Brian's suggestions seem to be an improvement. Frank
Brian Cameron wrote: > > Rich/Frank: > >> I'm just a humble packaging minion. Can you (or somebody else who >> understands all of this), spell out exactly what you'd liked changed >> here? >> Otherwise we are going to spend a lot more time just shuffling the >> classifications around, each time a new person with individual >> preferences, >> looks at the existing set of classifications. >> >> I fully understand that the current list of categories / sub-categories >> might not be perfect. If new ones should be added, then you need to >> let Frank know. I've added him to the cc: list. > > Based on our discussions so far, it seems that we have identified 3 new > categories/subcategories that would be useful to add. > > 1) System->Multimedia Libraries > > There are a lot of libraries to support graphics (GIF, TIF, JPEG, > RSVG), > video (theora), and audio (musicbrainz, ogg/vorbis, flac, speex, > libcanberra). It would be nice to put these into a single subcategory > and not clutter up System->Libraries with all of these. > > 2) Desktop->Theming > > A place to put pacakges which do not contain any code, but simply > contain > skins, themes, etc. > > 3) Desktop->Core > > A category to place packages which make up the desktop itself. Things > like the panel, default applets. Perhaps this would be a better > category > for gnome-session, and we could get rid of Desktop->Session and > instead > use a slightly broader category for foundational desktop modules. > > Just my thoughts, > > Brian _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
