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On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 20:54:21 -0400 "Dan Meltzer" |
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<parallelgrapefruit@×××××.com> wrote: |
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| According to the devmanual [1] |
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| "A herd is a collection of developers who maintain a collection of |
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| related packages" |
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| are you sure you are using the correct term? |
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Ah, yes, we're back to the old "what is a herd?" thing again. There're |
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at least three equally valid definitions you can trot out depending |
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upon which suits your argument. There's the original metastructure |
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description, which was suitable in the old days but no matches the |
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realities of how things are developed (especially the dumping packages |
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part, which used to be standard practice and is now considered |
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extremely rude), there's the "herds are people" definition that matches |
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how the word is most usually used (and which was argued for earlier by |
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some of the people who are now arguing for the old metastructure |
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definition) and there's the pragmatic definition in the devmanual. |
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Really, anyone arguing purely on definition is missing the point... |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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Mail : ciaran dot mccreesh at blueyonder.co.uk |
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