On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 09:26 +0100, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> > Hrm, according to the DTD, no. You'll need to persuade pauldv on that
> > one if you want to use them...
> 
> If you give me a good reason I'll be persuaded. If however you look back at 
> the herds proposal there is no linkage between categories and herds. To add 
> this would possibly introduce that. I also want to have some kind of meaning 
> added on putting herd and maintainer in category metadata. Especially for 
> maintainer it would seem strange that someone could maintain all packages in 
> a category.

Well, games-* could be herd: games... and games-fps could be herd: games
maintainer: vapier, wolf31o2...  I'm also sure that app-vim could be
herd: vim...  Just like app-emacs could be herd: emacs...

There are herds that are specifically designed to maintain a category.
Take net-mail or net-print (printing) as examples.  At the very minimum,
I can see value in being able to assign a herd to a category, if not a
maintainer.

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Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux