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On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 08:48:25PM +0200, Thomas Beierlein wrote: |
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> On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:27:47 -0500 |
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> William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote: |
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> > All, |
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> > I have recently noticed that our amateur radio applications are in the |
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> > category media-radio. |
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> > Amateur Radio is not considered part of the media, so I would like to |
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> > propose renaming this category to app-hamradio, or possibly moving the |
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> > amateur radio applications to app-hamradio if there are things in |
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> > media-radio which are not amateur radio related. |
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> I like the idea very much. But I am an radio amateur and therefore I am |
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> a little bit biased :). I was always confused to find them in |
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> media-radio. If we do the move please count on me. |
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I am an amateur radio operator as well, and that is why putting the ham radio |
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apps in"media-radio" bothers me. Ham radio is not part of the media. |
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> But to be honest there are some amateur (ham) radio related packages in |
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> other categories too (e.g. app-misc/aldo - a cw morse trainer, |
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> app-text/7plus - a packet radio text encoder, ..). So maybe a general |
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> cleanup would be good. |
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> A quick count in media-radio gives 12 packages for amateur radio and 2 |
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> others (the second one coming in just today). In sunrise there are 11 |
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> amateur radio related packages and 0 others. That means a move to |
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> app-hamradio would leave media-radio nearly empty. |
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I would say that if the sunrise packages eventually get moved into |
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portage, they should go in app-hamradio instead of media-radio, then |
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maybe we could move the other ham radio packages over there, but then |
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what would be the best choice for whatever is left in media-radio? |
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William |