[gentoo-dev] Herds (was: Soliciting input for a non-maintainer update (NMU) GLEP)

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Sat, 22 Jun 2013, hasufell  wrote:

>> http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/herd
>> a number of animals of one kind kept together under human control

> On that very link:
> a group of people usually having a common bond

That's a figurative meaning derived from the first one, but it doesn't
make sense here. The metaphor is that the herd consists of a set of
packages that are shepherded by their maintainers.

Ulrich