Thomas Rösner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 14:39:43 +0200:
> I still fail to see why this is such a big thing if one package which is > mainly used in relation to a religion is in a herd called theology. It's > not as if the world will come to a shattering halt and chaos will reign. > If for some reason the gnome herd adopted fluxbox or the KDE people > would take care of HAL, would you object because their herd names don't > fit? Even if the alternative was the packet remaining herdless, because > no other herd was interested? > > It's not as if this is a giant library, where a book will be lost > forever if it's in the wrong category, or like putting ID on the science > curriculum. Herds loosely lump related packages together, don't they? I > thought they were just infrastructure, not real categories. Indeed. That's why while I don't personally agree with the idea of genealogy in theology, I think it goes in sci-*, I also don't believe it's a big deal in terms of herd placement. Herd placement is primarily of "internal Gentoo interest", that is, to Gentoo devs/ATs/etc, not even most users except for filing bugs and if it's automated there... . If it was tree category placement and therefore could conceivably affect Gentoo user discoverability or otherwise had any significant external meaning at all, there might be /some/ reason to argue about it, but if it's only of interest internally for administrative use or the like, altho as I said it might raise a few eyebrows when folks happen across it. It's not as if it makes a difference, either to devs involved with it who will be involved anyway, or to those not interested in which case most won't touch it anyway, or even to bug wranglers or the like since that will be partially automated and where it isn't, they'll soon have job- specific internal knowledge like this down along with all the rest of it. Since it's not going to make a difference, certainly one of any significance, what's the big deal? "Much ado about nothing"? ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Much_Ado_About_Nothing ) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
