-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 10/09/2011 11:15 πμ, Mike Gilbert wrote: > 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. Well it is pretty obvious that no-herd means errr no 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. Just because willikins behaves like that does not justify the removal of this tag. God knows how many utilites and scripts are out there using the no-herd tag from metadata. > > I would say that each package needs to have at least one herd or > maintainer (which may be maintainer-needed or maintainer-wanted). > Well, you can easily assign your packages to dozen of herds and still be the only one who touches them. So what's the point? Just to pretend that the package is supported by an entire herd? - -- Regards, Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJOax44AAoJEPqDWhW0r/LCdjMP/3pJ2vV9tkQcwwga+pocB6U8 rpIm5nwEKUoTLucVUbyLuF0X8Z3u3RtAF1aJcq0UDN8EhBtzaAPFnvcRekqDF2R2 3Col31hyPUFGCXwyij8WSYwoTcVWYLwRw8m8jBBcXQmM2sLXCF1BNZQ83m0IAFv8 l73nZkHclebxZ+Pxs6/1nZZ/ZOUHTAT/SaI+pqkDKu64PbEjIKoxhmW5b2vbEPcQ gry3w/lsZsFLNxOM31H4/HkkB4HrOXBH9e8IKTO1dzZIWKWBA3ytwJFf78kWMNDo pz3d++nzw6o0gc0Rr+n2b+qL1gy1FPcM7qzRuZ2kESCvmrMW+HRqIrylSGcToJBt pKP+xF1h6/EJVa1IoQq0IvETms82nPnmV+uRoF5RZDD2gvQ5LIgQCtesHFEDAg8c WyBV1WmGiMg235XQYg8qASfz4VAUuiHqPLtJ/SkyD78CqPNsVf+Ak6t8HLoF+v+d 0SJGzC+CbvMJoSXWHcX9pHx1fi3Enw6OziKm1cGzu22TcxCyuMTxGvk9kyfCzT6L QfQ0WQFDS8CO26L/O+uah/boeGYFvNciaEb7m+tQkCEyAIPbNXPFMdz6XzroOStj e5iyj4mpq59MLD/6ULX04mb/4r/3OI3c9f2GfwZOCes+cjTmesMYeHOcMfpiqXIn 9Z+DzlydAJ4Xy7iYtIbg =jJ/i -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
