Re: [Nix-dev] development/libraries too large

2012-01-07 Thread Michael Raskin
>>> Probably we should drop the tree structure (reduce the number of >>> categories?) and replace it by search tags + tools to query these tags. >> >> +1 > >+1 > >In addition, I'd say the actual Nix packages tree structure should be >redesigned to >be developer-oriented. I.e., less rather than more

Re: [Nix-dev] development/libraries too large

2012-01-07 Thread Petr Rockai
Hi, "Yury G. Kudryashov" writes: > Probably we should drop the tree structure (reduce the number of > categories?) and replace it by search tags + tools to query these tags. I tend to agree, and I think it would be prudent to at least have a look at debtags. Lot of effort went into this one, a

Re: [Nix-dev] development/libraries too large

2012-01-07 Thread Andres Loeh
>> Probably we should drop the tree structure (reduce the number of >> categories?) and replace it by search tags + tools to query these tags. > > +1 +1 In addition, I'd say the actual Nix packages tree structure should be redesigned to be developer-oriented. I.e., less rather than more categorie

Re: [Nix-dev] development/libraries too large

2012-01-06 Thread Florian Friesdorf
On Sat, 07 Jan 2012 03:33:12 +0400, "Yury G. Kudryashov" wrote: > Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 03:20:06AM +0400, Yury G. Kudryashov wrote: > >> Nothing wrong if you want to find a package and you know the name of this > >> package. In this case we can put all pac

Re: [Nix-dev] development/libraries too large

2012-01-06 Thread Marc Weber
> Try to find qrencode library this way ;). Takes me 3 seconds: Open Vim, :e foo.nix :tjump qr See ctagsWrapped it knows about nix keys. Then you can tag the whole nixpkgs easily using ctags -R . > Probably we should drop the tree structure (reduce the number of > categories?) and replace it by

Re: [Nix-dev] development/libraries too large

2012-01-06 Thread Marc Weber
Excerpts from Yury G. Kudryashov's message of Fri Jan 06 22:35:14 +0100 2012: > I'd like to split development/libraries into subdirectories. Any objections? For what reason? ls -l being too long is no strong reason IMHO unless we hit > 10.000 files. In the past there was one guy who preferred the

Re: [Nix-dev] development/libraries too large

2012-01-06 Thread Yury G. Kudryashov
Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote: > On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 03:20:06AM +0400, Yury G. Kudryashov wrote: >> Nothing wrong if you want to find a package and you know the name of this >> package. In this case we can put all packages (not only libraries) into >> one directory. >> >> But `ls applications

Re: [Nix-dev] development/libraries too large

2012-01-06 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 03:20:06AM +0400, Yury G. Kudryashov wrote: > Clark Gaebel wrote: > > > ls -h | grep 'package' > > > > What's wrong with that? > Nothing wrong if you want to find a package and you know the name of this > package. In this case we can put all packages (not only libraries)

Re: [Nix-dev] development/libraries too large

2012-01-06 Thread Yury G. Kudryashov
Clark Gaebel wrote: > ls -h | grep 'package' > > What's wrong with that? Nothing wrong if you want to find a package and you know the name of this package. In this case we can put all packages (not only libraries) into one directory. But `ls applications/science/math` yields the list of (most?

Re: [Nix-dev] development/libraries too large

2012-01-06 Thread Clark Gaebel
ls -h | grep 'package' What's wrong with that? On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Yury G. Kudryashov wrote: > Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote: > >> On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 01:35:14AM +0400, Yury G.  Kudryashov wrote: >>> Hi! >>> >>> I'd like to split development/libraries into subdirectories. Any >>>

Re: [Nix-dev] development/libraries too large

2012-01-06 Thread Yury G. Kudryashov
Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote: > On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 01:35:14AM +0400, Yury G. Kudryashov wrote: >> Hi! >> >> I'd like to split development/libraries into subdirectories. Any >> objections? >> >> Some possible subdirectories: >> * multimedia (audio, video) >> * network >> * security >> * gra

Re: [Nix-dev] development/libraries too large

2012-01-06 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 01:35:14AM +0400, Yury G. Kudryashov wrote: > Hi! > > I'd like to split development/libraries into subdirectories. Any objections? > > Some possible subdirectories: > * multimedia (audio, video) > * network > * security > * graphics > * GUI > * filesystem Too large for w

[Nix-dev] development/libraries too large

2012-01-06 Thread Yury G. Kudryashov
Hi! I'd like to split development/libraries into subdirectories. Any objections? Some possible subdirectories: * multimedia (audio, video) * network * security * graphics * GUI * filesystem -- Yury G. Kudryashov, mailto: ur...@mccme.ru ___ nix-dev mai