[gentoo-dev] RFC: split up media-sound/ category

2011/6/21 Michał Górny :

Hello,

As we discussed for a while, the media-sound/ category has grown very
large and it may be a good idea to split it.

Right now, it contains audio players, editing software, converters,
sound systems and a lot of other utilities related to sound. Splitting
that up would make looking up software easier for users (e.g. if I want
to take a look at what audio players we have, I don't need to see all
other programs).

What do you think? What new category/-ies do you suggest?

I'd been always against the current classification. It's a bit
confusing to me (it's just my -very subjective- view, of course).

I'd gladly remove the "media-" thing as a whole, and do something like:

gfx-viewers
gfx-editors
gfx-plugins
gfx-libs
sound-players (and maybe sound-radio)
sound-editors
sound-plugins
sound-libs
video-players (and, maybe, only maybe video-tv)
video-editors
video-plugins
video-libs

Then move fonts elsewhere or just leave them as they are.

This is just a big picture though. I don't know if the degree of
granularity that you get with (i.e.) sdl can be achieved with other
libs, so some libs might fit into all of gfx-libs, sound-libs and
video-libs.

Just my random thought, as a mere long-time gentoo user.

Jesús Guerrero Botella

On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 16:40:59 +0200
Jesàºs J. Guerrero Botella wrote:

Then move fonts elsewhere or just leave them as they are.

x11-fonts? :P

Best regards,
Michał Górny

On 06/21/2011 08:40 AM, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote:

2011/6/21 Michał Górny:

Hello,

As we discussed for a while, the media-sound/ category has grown very
large and it may be a good idea to split it.

Right now, it contains audio players, editing software, converters,
sound systems and a lot of other utilities related to sound. Splitting
that up would make looking up software easier for users (e.g. if I want
to take a look at what audio players we have, I don't need to see all
other programs).

What do you think? What new category/-ies do you suggest?

I'd been always against the current classification. It's a bit
confusing to me (it's just my -very subjective- view, of course).

I'd gladly remove the "media-" thing as a whole, and do something like:

gfx-viewers
gfx-editors
gfx-plugins
gfx-libs
sound-players (and maybe sound-radio)
sound-editors
sound-plugins
sound-libs
video-players (and, maybe, only maybe video-tv)
video-editors
video-plugins
video-libs

I think 'audio' works better than 'sound' for category prefix of
audio/sound related apps.

Also, leave video-* in media-video/ and media-libs/ They can fit fine
in there. Plus video-players are multimedia players (they don't play
back just video, for instance).

Steve

On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 17:21:44 +0200
Michał Górny wrote:

On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 16:40:59 +0200
Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote:

> Then move fonts elsewhere or just leave them as they are.

x11-fonts? :P

Why? Fonts may not be related to X or any graphical interface;
they're used to display subtitles in media players or render documents
with TeX & cie.

A.

On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:29:23 +0000 (UTC)
Duncan wrote:

>> gfx-viewers gfx-editors gfx-plugins gfx-libs sound-players
>> sound-radio? sound-editors sound-plugins sound-libs video-players
>> video-tv? video-editors video-plugins video-libs
>
> I think 'audio' works better than 'sound' for category prefix of
> audio/sound related apps.

++ to audio-xxxx

IMO gfx-xxxx looks like some texting/personal shortcut,
not appropriately professional for a (meta-)distro like gentoo.

Like in 'media-gfx'? :P

> Also, leave video-* in media-video/ and media-libs/ They can fit
> fine in there. Plus video-players are multimedia players (they
> don't play back just video, for instance).

Right. mplayer, xine, etc, work just fine as for instance mp3
players. So media-xxxx is fine for them.

But probably we'll move it into media-players and so on then.

Best regards,
Michał Górny