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On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 09:26 +0100, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> > Hrm, according to the DTD, no. You'll need to persuade pauldv on that |
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> > one if you want to use them... |
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> If you give me a good reason I'll be persuaded. If however you look back at |
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> the herds proposal there is no linkage between categories and herds. To add |
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> this would possibly introduce that. I also want to have some kind of meaning |
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> added on putting herd and maintainer in category metadata. Especially for |
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> maintainer it would seem strange that someone could maintain all packages in |
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> a category. |
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Well, games-* could be herd: games... and games-fps could be herd: games |
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maintainer: vapier, wolf31o2... I'm also sure that app-vim could be |
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herd: vim... Just like app-emacs could be herd: emacs... |
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There are herds that are specifically designed to maintain a category. |
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Take net-mail or net-print (printing) as examples. At the very minimum, |
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I can see value in being able to assign a herd to a category, if not a |
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maintainer. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager |
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Games - Developer |
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Gentoo Linux |
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