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On Sat, 09 Oct 2004 16:54:29 +0200 foser <foser@g.o> wrote: |
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| On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 14:56 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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| > On Sat, 09 Oct 2004 15:33:19 +0200 foser <foser@g.o> wrote: |
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| > | Every package is in some form a subset of a category of packages |
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| > Not really, hence why solar's suggestion (which is just a |
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| > formalisation of what we're doing anyway) is such a good idea. |
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| Well, this gets to be a yes/no thread. But I personally do not believe |
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| there are packages that cannot be categorized in meaningful way on |
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| some common denominator with other packages (read : herd). Granted, a |
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| herd may not exist yet, but thats something else. |
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Well, that's the thing... You *could* go and create a bunch of arbitrary |
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herds to cover things. But take, for example, er... dev-util/txt2regex. |
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I think you'd have a hard time finding a herd for that, since there's no |
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particular identifiable group of people that use both this and a half |
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dozen or so other misc apps. Plus, it's such a trivial easy-to-maintain |
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package that it's not worth the effort of finding additional maintainers |
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and co-ordinating them. Some things really don't need a team behind |
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them... |
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-- |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Sparc, MIPS, Vim, Fluxbox) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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