BB menu reorg and upstream packages

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at mindspring.com
Fri Mar 24 09:59:51 UTC 2006


  ok, i can appreciate (to some extent) mike f's point about the
correlation to upstream packages (WRT to, say, "coreutils").  but that
argument doesn't really hold WRT to other menu entries like "Linux
System Utilities."  there's no such upstream package called *that*.

  part of my suggestion to reorg that whole menu system is that i
think it's absurd to have situations like the following:

	cat:		Coreutils
	more:		Linux System Utilities
	less:		Miscellaneous Utilities

	nice:		Coreutils
	renice:		Process Utilities

	od:		Coreutils
	hexdump:	Linux System Utilities

  i simply don't see the logic there, and i think it's more important
to have a logically sane interface for the *user's* benefit than to
try to stay compatible with upstream packages.

  users don't *care* about upstream compatibility -- they want a menu
system that appears to make sense.  if you need to make a trade-off,
one would think it should be in the user's favour, no?

more shortly, or i'll shut up if people would prefer that.

rday



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