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  • From: Jason Flatt <jason AT flattfamily.com>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] new section apps-emacs?
  • Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 16:16:09 -0700

On Sunday 20 June 2004 1:02 pm, Duane Malcolm wrote:
> I'm neither for or against splitting but I have two ideas to think about:
>
> 1. If we are going to split how about using the same grouping as Gentoo.
> This has two advantages: we gain their experience in what is a good way
> to split software and anyone coming from gentoo to sourcemage will feel
> some familiarity.

Why not Debian or FreeBSD? Both of them have been around longer then Gentoo.

While Source Mage and Gentoo are both source based, I believe the underlying
philosophies of Source Mage match closer to Debian than to Gentoo.

> 2. Posibility of putting category tag into the DETAILS file, such as
> "audio video games library". Then spells can be listed according to
> multiple categories. There will be a fixed list of categories. This
> would allow the dierectories to be split according to maintainer. But
> I'm not sure it's a good idea since directores would change a lot.
>
> Just something to think about.

Yes, indeedy. :^)

> Duane.

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