>>>>> On Sun, 17 May 2009, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> About a million years ago, we were going to move all the SCM
> packages into their own category (but it never happened, because
> port001's script didn't work). There was a huge bikeshed debate
> about whether to use vcs, rcs, scm or something else. In the
> interests of getting anything decided, Seemant made an executive
> decision and picked 'scm'.
And please don't mix completely unrelated topics. The discussion at
the time [1] was about moving dev-util/{cvs,git,subversion} etc. to
a new category, and clearly "dev-live" would not be a good choice
for that.
Ulrich
[1]
<http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_d05c27cf1cce095b3e18b0a9765137c5.xml>
