Dominique Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 18:32:50 +0200:
> I disagree. When searching for a software to do a given job and when I > have no idea of which software can do it, I begin to look for the ebuild > descriptions in the portage tree. It goes faster as anything else with > mc. And I will never search a genealogy program in theology, so I will > just miss it if it is in theology. I think you are missing the distinction between category/package, as seen in the tree and therefore affecting users and externally visible, and herd, which many users likely aren't aware of at all, as it's primarily a Gentoo-internal way for devs to organize packages of a similar theme they may be interested in working on. -- 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
