On Monday 04 July 2005 09:26, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > I was just finally shuffling packages into the app-backup category > (originally discussed in March, but not implementing due to epkgmove > status at the time), and I wanted to put the herd into the category > metadata, but I found that we don't allow it presently. > > Could the metadata.dtd please be changed to allow a herd to be > specified in a category metadata.xml?
The reason is that herds != categories and making a herd responsible for a category would promote miscategorization of packages to avoid a herd. The idea behind having the metadata.xml files is to maintain the data without needing to put it into the categories. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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