[Nix-dev] Flattening pkgs tree in nixpkgs/pkgs

[Christian Theune]

Hi,

same here. I’ve also been a long-time user of Gentoo and found their category model quite nice to use.

Obviously the model will never be perfect, but that isn’t an argument in favor of abandoning any structure at all.

Christian

> On 07 Jan 2016, at 23:33, jeaye <contact at jeaye.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm not a fan of this at all, for a few reasons.
> 
>>   Each time I want to find a package name I do
>>   * find -name '*name*'
>>   or use github search to locate files in repo.
> 
> Or you can use https://nixos.org/nixos/packages.html which also links
> directly to the Nix expression, lists the maintainers, home page, and
> even gives a command you can copy for installing imperatively.
> 
> The categorization may not be ideal, currently, but I absolutely
> support categorization of all packages.
> 
>>   * Have to be maintained
>>   * Harder to find things
>>   * Lack of any package manager which tells about it
> 
> It helps fit the directory limitations imposed by Github, sure, and I'd
> argue that it makes packages *easier to find*. If you know a package's
> name, use the link above, or find(1), or Github. If you don't know a
> package's name, but you know what it does, then the categories are very
> helpful. Extending out of just nixpkgs into NixOS modules, we can see
> just how helpful this becomes:
> 
> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/nixos/modules/services/security
> 
> Say I want to see what NixOS provides for tightening up my machine.
> There's a category just for it and games, networking, monitoring, etc.
> This is priceless.
> 
> I'd support a rework of the categories to be easier to navigate, but
> that would likely result in *more* categories, not fewer.
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