Re: Getting rid of section "base" ?
Goswin Brederlow writes:
> Isn´t base everything thats on the base.tgz file?
> I allways thought so.
I guess it was at some time, but not any more.
> While your at killing the base section, kill the other sections
> also. Its all a bloody mess. Graphics stuff is in libs, x11 stuff in
> games, some dev packages are in dev, some in lib some somewhere else.
I agree there is room for improvement here. But let's procede one
thing after the other, or we may simply not complete even the 1st one
;)
> As I see it there are several sortings mixed:
>
> priority: thats why theres base
Well, it seems 'base' even should not be there :)
> interface: X11
Ah, glad you tell this. I already suggested this some time ago but
did not get much support then. More on this in another thread - let's
separate issues.
> contents: devel, libs, graphics, net, web...
>
> useage: games, devel, graphics, lib, ...
>
> what they do: otherosfs, mail, net, web,...
I like the idea, but I'm not sure I understand how you separate those.
Again, more on this in another thread - let's separate issues.
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