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On Thursday 27 April 2006 19:55, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: |
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> On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 07:11:33PM +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> > The thing is, in most cases it doesn't really matter. But a herd is a |
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> > group of packages. |
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> That may be how it was originally intended, but it seems to me - and |
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> to others it seems - that the "herds" have evolved into what was |
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> originally labeled "teams". |
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> I suggest we update the documentation to reflect this evolution, and |
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> either rename "herds" to "teams" or vice versa. Using the word "team" |
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> may have the benefit of improving the team spirit of the developer |
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> community as a whole. |
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At the mean time, I've just reworded the herds page to be a bit clearer. |
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The difference between herds and teams is most in the fact that a team |
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may easilly maintain multiple herds (but distinguish them for |
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maintainability). |
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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 |