On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 4:04 AM, Markos Chandras <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > On 10/09/2011 11:01 πμ, Michał Górny wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Is there a real reason to have <herd>no-herd</herd>? As I see it, >> it's just an ugly hack which all programs have to learn and hack >> for no benefit. >> > What is the problem with that? Why is it an ugly hack? >
To a simple program/user, it basically says that the package belongs to a herd called "no-herd", rather than not belonging to any herd. For example, in IRC, willikins tries to look up the members of "no-herd" when you do !meta -v because the bot lacks a special exception for this odd-ball value. I would say that each package needs to have at least one herd or maintainer (which may be maintainer-needed or maintainer-wanted).
