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

[Domen Kožar]

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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