Re: New categories: both virtual and non virtual

------- Original Message -------
On Thursday, June 30th, 2022 at 16:34, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> wrote:


>
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> with pkg 1.18, it is easier to add new catagories which and reduce the impact
> in people as we can query all the categories virtual or not.
>
> Now that this is done, I would like to add the following new categories. Not
> that I want to address the current isssue here which is the desktop world on
> FreeBSD is not anymore a x11 only world, and the categories do not reflect
> that reality anymore.
>
> Virtual:
> - wayland
>
> Non Virtual:
> - ui-toolkits (all UI toolkits should be moved here)
> - desktop (all wayland compositors, all apps desktop oriented which does not
> fit in any other catagories).
> - desktop-libs (all libraries not ui-toolkit which are necessary for the
> desktops)
> - fonts (fonts and related libraries)
>
>
> For all the x11 related ports which will be moved there will they will keep
> a x11* virtual category to it is still queryable that way if it makes sence
>
> For example if we move libinput from x11/libinput to desktop/libinput then the
> CATEGORIES= x11 will become CATEGORIES= desktop-libs x11
>
> meaning:
> pkg info desktop-libs/libinput will match the same package as x11/libinput

Excellent idea! I agree that our categories need improvements in the desktop world.
Thanks for your work with pkg 1.18.

Lorenzo Salvadore