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

[zimbatm]

The issue with naming is that everyone has their opinion.

Since other smart people have already played the categorization game can I
suggest to restrict the discussion to which *existing* structure we should
adopt ?
There are a lot of big repositories out there: debian, gentoo portage,
archlinux, pkgsrc, ... One of them is bound to work, mostly. The nice
benefit would also be of not having to talk about categorization ever
again, unless the packaged project doesn't exist in the canonical
repository.

I don't care what structure we chose as long as it's shallower than what we
have right now. Like OP I'm tired of searching for packages and then
entering long paths in my shell.


On Fri, 8 Jan 2016 at 15:03 Bjørn Forsman <bjorn.forsman at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 8 January 2016 at 15:58, Vladimír Čunát <vcunat at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Personally, I would make it much flatter and also make it (almost)
> > exactly correspond to our *attribute* hierarchy.
>
> That's a good idea, I think!
>
> /Bjørn
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