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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@×××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Move SCMs to their own category?
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:57:58
Message-Id: 20080201175739.5d2729c7@snowcone
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Move SCMs to their own category? by Caleb Tennis
1 On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 12:52:16 -0500 (EST)
2 "Caleb Tennis" <caleb@g.o> wrote:
3 > It seems like all source control/revision control programs live in
4 > dev-util, but they might be better served in something like dev-scm
5 > or something like that. I'm thinking things like darcs, git, cvs,
6 > svn, mercurial, bzr. Then the slew of packages that depend on them:
7 > gitosis, bzrtools.
8 >
9 > Any objections to this potential move, or comments on a better
10 > category name?
11
12 You might want to ask Seemant (?) why he didn't do the move several
13 years back. There were plans to do it, but it never happened for some
14 reason -- not sure whether it was just a time issue or whether there
15 was something in particular that made it impossible.
16
17 --
18 Ciaran McCreesh

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Move SCMs to their own category? Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>