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On 10/09/2011 11:15 πμ, Mike Gilbert wrote: |
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> On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 4:04 AM, Markos Chandras |
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> <hwoarang@g.o> wrote: |
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>> On 10/09/2011 11:01 πμ, Michał Górny wrote: |
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>>> Hello, |
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>>> |
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>>> Is there a real reason to have <herd>no-herd</herd>? As I see |
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>>> it, it's just an ugly hack which all programs have to learn and |
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>>> hack for no benefit. |
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>>> |
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>> What is the problem with that? Why is it an ugly hack? |
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> To a simple program/user, it basically says that the package |
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> belongs to a herd called "no-herd", rather than not belonging to |
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> any herd. |
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Well it is pretty obvious that no-herd means errr no herd. |
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> For example, in IRC, willikins tries to look up the members of |
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> "no-herd" when you do !meta -v because the bot lacks a special |
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> exception for this odd-ball value. |
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Just because willikins behaves like that does not justify the removal |
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of this tag. God knows how many utilites and scripts are out there |
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using the no-herd tag from metadata. |
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> I would say that each package needs to have at least one herd or |
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> maintainer (which may be maintainer-needed or maintainer-wanted). |
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Well, you can easily assign your packages to dozen of herds and still |
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be the only one who touches them. So what's the point? Just to pretend |
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that the package is supported by an entire herd? |
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- -- |
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Regards, |
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Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2 |
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