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Bug 34758 - category hierarchies (three-tier'd catagories)
Summary: category hierarchies (three-tier'd catagories)
Status: RESOLVED LATER
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Conceptual/Abstract Ideas (show other bugs)
Hardware: All All
: High enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Portage team
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: 35859 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2003-11-30 07:13 UTC by Priit Laes (IRC: plaes)
Modified: 2009-08-12 15:56 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Priit Laes (IRC: plaes) 2003-11-30 07:13:20 UTC
It would be nice if portage had a separate category for desktops.
Just something like this:
x11-desktop/kde (same as kde-base/kde)
x11-desktop/gnome (same as gnome-base/gnome)
x11-desktop/xfce (same as xfce-base/xfce)

This makes it a little easier to see a list of available desktop environments.
Comment 1 Brandon Hale (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-11-30 09:57:21 UTC
this is truly possible with three tier portage, which is not possible (or very hard to
implement) in the current portage. we may hopefully see this in portage-ng.

in the meantime, i have proposed a similar desktop-* scheme, vs the current mixture
between x11-* and app-* for desktop apps, both of which are faily ambiguous imo.

so... desktop-wm, desktop-panel, desktop-yourstuff ?
i think gnome et all are fine where they are for the time being, but alot of other stuff is poorly (ambiguously?) organized.
Comment 2 Brandon Hale (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-11-30 10:19:57 UTC
Hmm, I'm seeing another point of yours here...
Somone new to Linux looks around the Portage tree, they likely have no idea
what xfce-base might contain. desktop-env(ironments) or some such container
would help this situation. A great example of a similar effort was the app-games move
into nicely structured categories, games-*
Comment 3 Paul de Vrieze (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-12-01 11:21:17 UTC
To me this seems a candidate for LATER resolving. There is no way it can be implemented currently
Comment 4 Priit Laes (IRC: plaes) 2003-12-01 11:40:26 UTC
Nono... i just meant that it would be nice to see it like this:
${PORTAGE}/x11-desktop/gnome/gnome-2.x.ebuild
${PORTAGE}/x11-desktop/kde/kde-3.x.ebuild
${PORTAGE}/x11-desktop/xfce/xfce-4.x.ebuild

Moving gnome-base/gnome/gnome-2.4.ebuild to x11-desktop/gnome/gnome-2.4.ebuild
The other gnome-*; kde-*; xfce-* should be left as they were.
I should have clarified myself more...
Comment 5 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-12-16 07:36:59 UTC
*** Bug 35859 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Jason Huebel (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-01-07 20:38:04 UTC
Seems stupid to me, but someone marked bug 35859 as a duplicate of this one.  So, I'm adding this comment to cover the problem.  Please move app-misc/rox and app-misc/rox-session to x11-wm/ and x11-misc/ respectively.
Comment 7 Jonathan Smith (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-06-14 17:11:54 UTC
this is none of desktop-misc's buisness... removing from cc...

and a three-prong layout seems rather pointless to me, but i'm not on portage
team, so ask them
Comment 8 Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-07-28 07:24:59 UTC
Putting a hold on feature requests for portage as they are drowning out the 
bugs. Most of these features should be available in the next major version of 
portage. But for the time being, they are just drowning out the major bugs and 
delaying the next version's progress. 
 
Any bugs that contain patches and any bugs for etc-update or dispatch-conf can 
be reopened. Sorry, I'm just not good enough with bugzilla. ;)