Dan Price wrote:
> On Wed 07 Jan 2009 at 10:20AM, Stephen Hahn wrote:
>>   So, included below, is the output of the renaming script for about 671
>>   packages.  It should be enough to trigger discussion.
> 
> Does a package's occupation of a slot in the namespace also preclude
> descendants?  (either by convention of by proposed code changes?)
> 
> That is to say, if system/font/x11 is a package, is it impossible (or
> ill advised) to have system/font/x11/supplemental ?
> 
> At a higher level-- how do I know what is a category versus what
> is not a category?  How much work do you anticipate we will put
> into the tools around knowing that "/" is a delimiter?  That is
> to say, given "print/a2ps", would "pkg install a2ps" be expected
> to work, assuming a2ps is unambiguous?

Which also brings up an interesting question, if the user specifies the 
name of a category, does that allow them to install all the items in a 
category?  For example, "pfexec pkg install gnome2/games" ?

>> gcc-dev -> 'feature/develop/gnu'
>>      GNU Tools Development cluster
> 
> I think this is somewhat hard to understand.  Perhaps preserving
> some of the flavor of the thing in the last path element would be
> nice:
> 
>         feature/develop/gnu-dev

I'm not certain I follow this.  Why keep the -dev?

Cheers,
-- 
Shawn Walker
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