[gentoo-dev] Re: new herd: theology

[Duncan]

Thomas Rösner <Thomas.Roesner@××××××××××××××.de> posted
4633408F.5030507@××××××××××××××.de, excerpted below, on  Sat, 28 Apr 2007
14:39:43 +0200:

> I still fail to see why this is such a big thing if one package which is
> mainly used in relation to a religion is in a herd called theology. It's
> not as if the world will come to a shattering halt and chaos will reign.
> If for some reason the gnome herd adopted fluxbox or the KDE people
> would take care of HAL, would you object because their herd names don't
> fit? Even if the alternative was the packet remaining herdless, because
> no other herd was interested?
>
> It's not as if this is a giant library, where a book will be lost
> forever if it's in the wrong category, or like putting ID on the science
> curriculum. Herds loosely lump related packages together, don't they? I
> thought they were just infrastructure, not real categories.

Indeed.  That's why while I don't personally agree with the idea of 
genealogy in theology, I think it goes in sci-*, I also don't believe 
it's a big deal in terms of herd placement.  Herd placement is primarily 
of "internal Gentoo interest", that is, to Gentoo devs/ATs/etc, not even 
most users except for filing bugs and if it's automated there... . 

If it was tree category placement and therefore could conceivably affect 
Gentoo user discoverability or otherwise had any significant external 
meaning at all, there might be /some/ reason to argue about it, but if 
it's only of interest internally for administrative use or the like, 
altho as I said it might raise a few eyebrows when folks happen across 
it.  

It's not as if it makes a difference, either to devs involved with it who 
will be involved anyway, or to those not interested in which case most 
won't touch it anyway, or even to bug wranglers or the like since that 
will be partially automated and where it isn't, they'll soon have job-
specific internal knowledge like this down along with all the rest of 
it.  Since it's not going to make a difference, certainly one of any 
significance, what's the big deal?  "Much ado about nothing"? 
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Much_Ado_About_Nothing )

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