Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Per-Category metadata.xml Files
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 23:52:37
Message-Id: 1110584833.18760.2.camel@vertigo.twi-31o2.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Per-Category metadata.xml Files by Donnie Berkholz
1 On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 12:07 -0800, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
2 > > * It would help developers better select a relevant category for their
3 > > package, rather than dumping everything into ``sys-apps`` and
4 > > ``app-misc`` as is done currently.
5 >
6 > If it's difficult to search/browse, it may not help much.
7
8 It's a lot easier to make a tool to search/browse them once they're in
9 place.
10
11 > > The ``<herd>`` and ``<maintainer>`` elements are not generally relevant at
12 > > the category level.
13 >
14 > If they are, can they be used?
15
16 I would like this one, too, as games-* is all owned by the same herd,
17 minus a few select packages here and there.
18
19 --
20 Chris Gianelloni
21 Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager
22 Games - Developer
23 Gentoo Linux

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