[Buildroot] [RFC] moving audio and video packages into a new category 'multimedia'

[Buildroot] [RFC] moving audio and video packages into a new category 'multimedia'

[Markus Heidelberg]

Hi,

I'm currently working on some video stuff and would like to put new packages
together with the 'audio' category into a new category 'multimedia'. As far as
I can see currently affected are package/audio, mplayer and vlc. Mplayer and
vlc are in the 'graphics' category, that seems to be a bit odd.

Do you agree? Then I would create a patch.

Markus

[Buildroot] [RFC] moving audio and video packages into a new category 'multimedia'

[Hans-Christian Egtvedt]

On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:13:56 +0100
Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm currently working on some video stuff and would like to put new
> packages together with the 'audio' category into a new category
> 'multimedia'. As far as I can see currently affected are
> package/audio, mplayer and vlc. Mplayer and vlc are in the 'graphics'
> category, that seems to be a bit odd.
> 

I would love to see the entire package selection cleaned up and grouped
into sane sub groups. Mostly the kconfig part of it, but the package
directory structure should reflect kconfig IMHO.

-- 
Best regards,
Hans-Christian Egtvedt

[Buildroot] [RFC] moving audio and video packages into a new category 'multimedia'

[Markus Heidelberg]

Hans-Christian Egtvedt, 14.11.2008:
> On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:13:56 +0100
> Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm currently working on some video stuff and would like to put new
> > packages together with the 'audio' category into a new category
> > 'multimedia'. As far as I can see currently affected are
> > package/audio, mplayer and vlc. Mplayer and vlc are in the 'graphics'
> > category, that seems to be a bit odd.
> > 
> 
> I would love to see the entire package selection cleaned up and grouped
> into sane sub groups. Mostly the kconfig part of it, but the package
> directory structure should reflect kconfig IMHO.

Should we even go so far that not a single package should live under package/
directly any more, but all packages under package/<category>/ ?

I think so. And BusyBox works the same way.

Markus

[Buildroot] [RFC] moving audio and video packages into a new category 'multimedia'

[Daniel Laird]

I made some suggestions some time ago and started the move with audio and
games.

I also proposed a large clean up of the huge BR2_GRAPHICS menu which is a
bit large.

I also believe that no packages should be under package directly.

I think we should create a directory skeleton on here.  Get agreement and
make the big move
Cheers
Daniel Laird


-----Original Message-----
From: buildroot-bounces@uclibc.org [mailto:buildroot-bounces at uclibc.org] On
Behalf Of Markus Heidelberg
Sent: 2008 Nov 14 09:03
To: Hans-Christian Egtvedt
Cc: buildroot at uclibc.org
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [RFC] moving audio and video packages into a new
category 'multimedia'

Hans-Christian Egtvedt, 14.11.2008:
> On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:13:56 +0100
> Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm currently working on some video stuff and would like to put new
> > packages together with the 'audio' category into a new category
> > 'multimedia'. As far as I can see currently affected are
> > package/audio, mplayer and vlc. Mplayer and vlc are in the 'graphics'
> > category, that seems to be a bit odd.
> > 
> 
> I would love to see the entire package selection cleaned up and grouped
> into sane sub groups. Mostly the kconfig part of it, but the package
> directory structure should reflect kconfig IMHO.

Should we even go so far that not a single package should live under
package/
directly any more, but all packages under package/<category>/ ?

I think so. And BusyBox works the same way.

Markus

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[Buildroot] [RFC] moving audio and video packages into a new category 'multimedia'

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Le Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:29:11 +0000,
"Daniel Laird" <danieljlaird@hotmail.com> a ?crit :

> I also proposed a large clean up of the huge BR2_GRAPHICS menu which
> is a bit large.

I also agree with that, the graphics submenu requires a cleanup.

Thomas
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[Buildroot] [RFC] moving audio and video packages into a new category 'multimedia'

[Arnar Mar Sig]

I also think that the package dir structure should reflect the menus  
and no packages should be directly under packages/

IMO the organization of package that FreeBSD ports has is really good  
and can be used as template for our package dir structure.
Also FreeBSD ports does NOT rename packages like most linux package  
systems do (and annoys the hell out of me). Like libgtk, the softwares  
name is GTK not libgtk so the package should be named gtk to make  
looking for it easier.

On Nov 14, 2008, at 11:29 AM, Daniel Laird wrote:

> I made some suggestions some time ago and started the move with  
> audio and
> games.
>
> I also proposed a large clean up of the huge BR2_GRAPHICS menu which  
> is a
> bit large.
>
> I also believe that no packages should be under package directly.
>
> I think we should create a directory skeleton on here.  Get  
> agreement and
> make the big move
> Cheers
> Daniel Laird
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: buildroot-bounces at uclibc.org [mailto:buildroot-bounces at uclibc.org 
> ] On
> Behalf Of Markus Heidelberg
> Sent: 2008 Nov 14 09:03
> To: Hans-Christian Egtvedt
> Cc: buildroot at uclibc.org
> Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [RFC] moving audio and video packages into  
> a new
> category 'multimedia'
>
> Hans-Christian Egtvedt, 14.11.2008:
>> On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:13:56 +0100
>> Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm currently working on some video stuff and would like to put new
>>> packages together with the 'audio' category into a new category
>>> 'multimedia'. As far as I can see currently affected are
>>> package/audio, mplayer and vlc. Mplayer and vlc are in the  
>>> 'graphics'
>>> category, that seems to be a bit odd.
>>>
>>
>> I would love to see the entire package selection cleaned up and  
>> grouped
>> into sane sub groups. Mostly the kconfig part of it, but the package
>> directory structure should reflect kconfig IMHO.
>
> Should we even go so far that not a single package should live under
> package/
> directly any more, but all packages under package/<category>/ ?
>
> I think so. And BusyBox works the same way.
>
> Markus
>
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	Arnar Mar Sig
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[Buildroot] [RFC] moving audio and video packages into a new category 'multimedia'

[Peter Korsgaard]

>>>>> "Arnar" == Arnar Mar Sig <antab@valka.is> writes:

 Arnar> I also think that the package dir structure should reflect the menus  
 Arnar> and no packages should be directly under packages/

 Arnar> IMO the organization of package that FreeBSD ports has is really good  
 Arnar> and can be used as template for our package dir structure.
 Arnar> Also FreeBSD ports does NOT rename packages like most linux package  
 Arnar> systems do (and annoys the hell out of me). Like libgtk, the softwares  
 Arnar> name is GTK not libgtk so the package should be named gtk to make  
 Arnar> looking for it easier.

Fine by me, patches are welcome.

I would prefer to not rename Kconfig symbols though, to not break
existing .config's.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard