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Alec Warner wrote: |
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> I request that this tag be made optional in the metadata.xml DTD. |
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In my opinion, an empty tag or one with "no-herd" is rather silly when |
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the requirement for the tag can just be removed. |
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The alternative is, of course, requiring every package to belong to a |
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real herd. Although this is not impossible, it would be quite hard to |
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implement as quite a few packages do not really fit into any existing |
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category, as you mentioned in #-dev. Also, someone will have to go |
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through the ~2000 packages and figure out what herd they belong to, |
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which seems like a strenuous job. |
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I say the first is a much more feasible solution. I'll even be glad to |
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help in removing the herd tags for the affected ebuilds if this is the |
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path chosen. |
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I say we act on this now, as the further off we put it until, the more |
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metadata.xml files there will be to fix. |
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David Shakaryan |
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