On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 14:13:46 +0100 Bjarke Istrup Pedersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was thinking, how about putting all log related packages into their > own category? Personally I think unless there is a real problem that needs to be resolved, moving packages around should be avoided. We've been over the problems of the concept of categories many times, I don't see any value in going through it in depth again as categories are too deeply embedded to be changed. Suffice to say that any package is likely to have several reasonable categorisations, however the tree only supports one. Different people will prefer different categorisations according to each person's perspective, so moving packages to suit one perspective just messes things up for another perspective. > Maybe creating a logging herd would be an idea to, to remove the load > from the base-system herd. Creating a herd is not a problem; obviously herds and categories are completely different things. However a quick scan of the logging-related packages in sys-admin shows they mostly do not belong to a herd, so are not imposing any load on the base-system herd as such. Creation of a herd for these packages would be a question for the maintainers of those packages :) -- Kevin F. Quinn
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