Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new category for container related packages, instead of app-emulation

2021-08-08 Thread Eray Aslan
On Sat, Aug 07, 2021 at 01:17:00AM -0400, Ionen Wolkens wrote: > On Sat, Aug 07, 2021 at 05:56:55AM +0100, Sam James wrote: > > > > > > > On 6 Aug 2021, at 23:27, Louis Sautier wrote: > > > > > > On 06/08/2021 02:57, Alec Warner wrote: > > >> Do people actually care what category things are in?

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new category for container related packages, instead of app-emulation

2021-08-07 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
> > Categories themselves were not a design mistake. The design mistake is > using categories to permit conflicting package names. > > Categories are convenient. Sure, they're not perfect but they serve > their purpose to some degree and there's little harm in having them. > If you want to orga

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new category for container related packages, instead of app-emulation

2021-08-07 Thread A Schenck
On 8/6/21 11:58 AM, A Schenck wrote: > On 8/5/21 5:57 PM, Alec Warner wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 2:44 PM Georgy Yakovlev wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> We've been collecting more and more container related packages in >>> app-emulation/* >>> >>> What do you think about finally moving those packages

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new category for container related packages, instead of app-emulation

2021-08-06 Thread Michał Górny
On Thu, 2021-08-05 at 17:57 -0700, Alec Warner wrote: > On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 2:44 PM Georgy Yakovlev wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > We've been collecting more and more container related packages in > > app-emulation/* > > > > What do you think about finally moving those packages to separate cate

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new category for container related packages, instead of app-emulation

2021-08-06 Thread Ionen Wolkens
On Sat, Aug 07, 2021 at 05:56:55AM +0100, Sam James wrote: > > > > On 6 Aug 2021, at 23:27, Louis Sautier wrote: > > > > On 06/08/2021 02:57, Alec Warner wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 2:44 PM Georgy Yakovlev > >> wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> We've been collecting more and more container

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new category for container related packages, instead of app-emulation

2021-08-06 Thread Sam James
> On 6 Aug 2021, at 23:27, Louis Sautier wrote: > > On 06/08/2021 02:57, Alec Warner wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 2:44 PM Georgy Yakovlev wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> We've been collecting more and more container related packages in >>> app-emulation/* >>> >>> What do you think about finally

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new category for container related packages, instead of app-emulation

2021-08-06 Thread Joshua Kinard
On 8/5/2021 20:57, Alec Warner wrote: > On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 2:44 PM Georgy Yakovlev wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> We've been collecting more and more container related packages in >> app-emulation/* >> >> What do you think about finally moving those packages to separate category? > > As always my op

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new category for container related packages, instead of app-emulation

2021-08-06 Thread Alec Warner
On Fri, Aug 6, 2021 at 2:12 PM William Hubbs wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 05, 2021 at 05:57:06PM -0700, Alec Warner wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 2:44 PM Georgy Yakovlev wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > We've been collecting more and more container related packages in > > > app-emulation/* > > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new category for container related packages, instead of app-emulation

2021-08-06 Thread Louis Sautier
On 06/08/2021 02:57, Alec Warner wrote: On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 2:44 PM Georgy Yakovlev wrote: Hi, We've been collecting more and more container related packages in app-emulation/* What do you think about finally moving those packages to separate category? As always my opinion is that: (a)

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new category for container related packages, instead of app-emulation

2021-08-06 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Donnerstag, 5. August 2021, 23:44:40 CEST schrieb Georgy Yakovlev: > Hi, > > We've been collecting more and more container related packages in > app-emulation/* > > What do you think about finally moving those packages to separate category? > > probably app-containers/ > > Here's the tentat

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new category for container related packages, instead of app-emulation

2021-08-06 Thread Toralf Förster
On 8/6/21 2:57 AM, Alec Warner wrote: As always my opinion is that: (a) Categories were a design mistake. Hhm, the concept of a directory+files structure is wide spreaded and many search algorithms benefit from it. -- Toralf PGP 23217DA7 9B888F45 OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP di

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new category for container related packages, instead of app-emulation

2021-08-06 Thread William Hubbs
On Thu, Aug 05, 2021 at 05:57:06PM -0700, Alec Warner wrote: > On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 2:44 PM Georgy Yakovlev wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > We've been collecting more and more container related packages in > > app-emulation/* > > > > What do you think about finally moving those packages to separate

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new category for container related packages, instead of app-emulation

2021-08-06 Thread A Schenck
On 8/5/21 5:57 PM, Alec Warner wrote: > On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 2:44 PM Georgy Yakovlev wrote: >> Hi, >> >> We've been collecting more and more container related packages in >> app-emulation/* >> >> What do you think about finally moving those packages to separate category? > As always my opinion

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new category for container related packages, instead of app-emulation

2021-08-06 Thread Florian Schmaus
On 05.08.21 23:44, Georgy Yakovlev wrote: > Hi, > > We've been collecting more and more container related packages in > app-emulation/* > > What do you think about finally moving those packages to separate category? > > probably app-containers/ Categories are cheap, they help to organize the v

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new category for container related packages, instead of app-emulation

2021-08-05 Thread Thomas Mueller
> On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 2:44 PM Georgy Yakovlev wrote: > > We've been collecting more and more container related packages in > > app-emulation/* > > What do you think about finally moving those packages to separate category? > As always my opinion is that: > (a) Categories were a des

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new category for container related packages, instead of app-emulation

2021-08-05 Thread Alec Warner
On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 2:44 PM Georgy Yakovlev wrote: > > Hi, > > We've been collecting more and more container related packages in > app-emulation/* > > What do you think about finally moving those packages to separate category? As always my opinion is that: (a) Categories were a design mistak

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new category for container related packages, instead of app-emulation

2021-08-05 Thread Aaron Bauman
On Thu, Aug 05, 2021 at 02:44:40PM -0700, Georgy Yakovlev wrote: > Hi, > > We've been collecting more and more container related packages in > app-emulation/* > > What do you think about finally moving those packages to separate category? > This would be a more accurate categorization of the p

[gentoo-dev] RFC: new category for container related packages, instead of app-emulation

2021-08-05 Thread Georgy Yakovlev
Hi, We've been collecting more and more container related packages in app-emulation/* What do you think about finally moving those packages to separate category? probably app-containers/ Here's the tentative list, most tools have description attached for easier review, 36 candidates so far, th