On Monday 25 June 2007 23:09, Pascal Bleser wrote:
IMO it would be preferable to organize packages by purpose instead of by environment (especially X or console). There's already a huge list of repos -- if we don't make it as distinct as possible, people won't know where to find or expect stuff.
The question is what is a good criteria for organizing packages
namespace-wise. My feeling is that dependencies would be a good criteria.
This would mean that grouping packages which don't have X dependencies in a
project or namespace actually would make sense. For developers and packagers
I think this could also be helpful when finding stuff.
For end users the problem of finding software is more complex and has a lot of
different aspects. I'm not sure a simple namespace hierarchy is helping here
a lot, regardless if we organizer by purpose or by dependencies. To create a
good user experience we have to rely on more sophisticated mechanisms anyway,
like a good search, tags, ratings, etc.
Just a thought.
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Cornelius Schumacher