On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 16:22 +0200, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > Currently pam stuff (implementations, modules) are organized in the worst way > I ever seen. > Most of them are in sys-libs, some of them in app-admin, other in app-crypt, > pam_smb in net-misc and so on. > > I think we should reorganize them and have a sys-pam category with > implementations (Linux-PAM and OpenPAM) and the modules needed. > > Such a change would require a lot of work and we can't count on epkgmove I > think, but if someone is going to help me or at least tell me how to do such > a change without breaking everything (always if such a change is accepted, > obv.).. > > Comments?
Diego: This is not directed at you solely but expresses my general feelings on the topic of ever moving packages. I think they are fine where they are. Moving stuff around is a waste of time. Makes things more complex. Makes more work on everybody. Invalidates binary package trees. It places stress on rsync servers. It makes people have to rewrite rsync_exclude files. Makes it harder for scripts that interact with portage. And in the end really gains us next to nothing. Please stop moving stuff around for cosmetic reasons. I see far to many threads about changing stuff. No real valuable work ever gets done. Stuff simply just gets shifted around somebody can think of a new way to categorize existing data. -- Ned Ludd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
