emacs top-level category

[Weissmann Markus]

On 22.10.2007, at 08:51, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote:

>
> On Oct 21, 2007, at 3:29 PM, Weissmann Markus wrote:
>
>> On 21.10.2007, at 17:51, N_Ox wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Following r30144 and r30145, can i create a top-level emacs  
>>> category?
>>> I think I'm going to add some more emacs packages, i don't want  
>>> to pollute the editors category.
>>>
>>
>> I think it would be nice to prefix the emacs packages with  
>> "emacs-" (like the ruby/perl/python/.. ports);
>> if this is suitable, a separate top-level category would be  
>> unnecessary imho.
>>
>
> 	We name-prefix some of our ports with well-known strings (e.g. p5- 
> * for perl modules) and still have top-level categories for them  
> (e.g., hhmmm, perl/ for perl modules ;-). I'd favor the emacs  
> category (and no, it aint 'cause I'm an emacs user! :-P)
>

...and it is not because I'm a vi-user that I may remark that the  
perl-category has over 500 ports while the editors-category currently  
has ~40; I'd say a top-level category shouldn't be introduced for  
every tiny new set of ports. I have no idea how many emacs-ports  
there would be, but if they are not exceeding ~30, I'd say put them  
in the anyway rather empty editors-category.


-Markus

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