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On Monday 04 July 2005 09:26, Robin H. Johnson wrote: |
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> I was just finally shuffling packages into the app-backup category |
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> (originally discussed in March, but not implementing due to epkgmove |
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> status at the time), and I wanted to put the herd into the category |
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> metadata, but I found that we don't allow it presently. |
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> Could the metadata.dtd please be changed to allow a herd to be |
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> specified in a category metadata.xml? |
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The reason is that herds != categories and making a herd responsible for a |
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category would promote miscategorization of packages to avoid a herd. The |
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idea behind having the metadata.xml files is to maintain the data without |
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needing to put it into the categories. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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