Re: [gentoo-dev] Please use land-misc herd where appropriate! No no-herd madness!!!

[Ned Ludd]

On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 10:52, foser wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 10:29 -0400, Ned Ludd wrote:
> > Do you see the irony is this situation?
> > a) "A maintainer does not need to be part of the (2nd) maintaining
> > herd."
> > b) "you cannot assign something without consent ever"
> > c) "Not adding metadata is against policy"
> > d) this is quoting from the skel.metadata.xml
> > "herd is a required subelement."
> >
> > if a, b, c and d cant be met for whatever reason then "no-herd" would be
> > the appropriate choice. It's already the default in the skel so I'm not
> > actually proposing anything new here.
>
> Why can't a, b & c be met ? They can always be met if you put the effort
> in.
>
> > I like this option of using $CATEGORY. I would happily use it if
> > somebody else (you?) with the motivation to gets everything created to
> > meet these requirements and formalizes this into a standard.
>
> herds based on categories are not a good idea most of the time, there is
> no common ground, especially if you talk about *-misc categories. If
> something falls back to a herd where everyone has a 'role' to only take
> care of a specific pack in the end nothing gets done about packages
> outside of that scope, I even think there already examples of herds
> where this happened.

heh ok so were back to 'no-herd' aka NULL


>
> - foser
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Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>
Gentoo (hardened,security,infrastructure,embedded,toolchain) Developer