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

[Arseniy Seroka]

In my opinion we should spend our time and skills to solve more important
issues and problems.
On 8 Jan 2016 18:53, "Domen Kožar" <domen at dev.si> wrote:

> Going for attribute set names is hard, since we have many aliases.
>
> We had a discussion about this at NixCon (I think Oliver Charles has the
> notes).
>
> In general, the only thing that really matters here is not to waste people
> time. Currently it's suboptimal, I'd really just be happy if we had flat
> structure. That does impose problems since it's hard to find a system to
> categorize software.
>
> It's really worth checking out what other package managers do and see who
> is happy about their structure.
>
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 4:47 PM, zimbatm <zimbatm at zimbatm.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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