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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: "scm" in GLEP 54 (was: Council meeting summary for meeting on May 14, 2009)
Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 20:12:54
Message-Id: 18960.28612.29181.861138@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: "scm" in GLEP 54 (was: Council meeting summary for meeting on May 14, 2009) by Ciaran McCreesh
1 >>>>> On Sun, 17 May 2009, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2
3 > About a million years ago, we were going to move all the SCM
4 > packages into their own category (but it never happened, because
5 > port001's script didn't work). There was a huge bikeshed debate
6 > about whether to use vcs, rcs, scm or something else. In the
7 > interests of getting anything decided, Seemant made an executive
8 > decision and picked 'scm'.
9
10 And please don't mix completely unrelated topics. The discussion at
11 the time [1] was about moving dev-util/{cvs,git,subversion} etc. to
12 a new category, and clearly "dev-live" would not be a good choice
13 for that.
14
15 Ulrich
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17 [1] <http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_d05c27cf1cce095b3e18b0a9765137c5.xml>