| 10 Jul 2022 |
 K900 | We should just do a crates.io and organize packages by name | 15:26:35 |
| K900 | pkgs/h/he/hello/default.nix | 15:26:52 |
| K900 | (no) | 15:26:54 |
| K900 | (unless?) | 15:26:57 |
 infinisil | I've wanted something like this for a while. I think it would be a good idea | 15:27:41 |
| K900 | * `pkgs/h/e/hello/default.nix` | 15:27:59 |
| K900 | The more I think about it, the more I'm starting to like it tbh | 15:28:16 |
| K900 | It's kind of the same thing as having a consistent formatter (no. drop the pitchforks.) | 15:29:04 |
| K900 | It's better to have a fixed convention than to argue about it every time | 15:29:24 |
 Rick (Mindavi) | In reply to @k900:0upti.me
It's better to have a fixed convention than to argue about it every time Yes, but indeed always hard to enforce/add retroactively | 15:30:30 |
| infinisil | It should probably be pkgs/prefixed/h/e/hello/default.nix, so a slow transition is possible | 15:30:52 |
| infinisil | Also I like the idea of introducing tags, like meta.tags = [ "gui" "audio" "networking" ], and then having some functions/tools to filter/search by category | 15:31:53 |
| infinisil | This could replace the loose categories of the file path | 15:32:25 |
 kevincox | Do we even need subdirectories. Is performance on any modern filesystem or git bad for big directories? | 15:33:15 |
| kevincox | I guess it doesn't hurt to be safe? | 15:33:28 |
| K900 | Github web UI still chokes at over 1000 files | 15:33:32 |
| infinisil | Yeah I think this is a main reason | 15:33:41 |
| K900 | Also, there's NTFS | 15:33:47 |
| kevincox | But either way I am 100x more in favour of flat + tags over hierarchy. | 15:33:49 |
| K900 | Which we might want to support at some point | 15:33:56 |
 Alyssa Ross | git works badly with big flat directories too | 15:34:08 |
| K900 | And which has no dentry cache | 15:34:09 |
| Alyssa Ross | because you have to store the whole tree every time | 15:34:15 |
| Alyssa Ross | whereas with two levels of prefix directories you have to store 1/26^2 of the tree every time | 15:34:36 |
| K900 | Man I really wish I had the brain juice to push this sort of stuff | 15:34:55 |
| K900 | I'd love to see it happen but it's so much coordination work and I'm already burned out as is | 15:35:48 |
| kevincox | Well you store the while tree but 99% is the same as last time so it compresses just like any other blob with a 1-line change. | 15:35:49 |
| infinisil | K900: This team should help with that :D | 15:36:20 |
| Alyssa Ross | that's true, but I don't compression will help as much as just not having to re-store something in the first place | 15:36:25 |
| Alyssa Ross | additionally, it means diffing the whole tree rather than diffing three smaller tries | 15:36:47 |
